Nicholas Anderson

Calgary, Alberta, Canada  •  +1 (587) 982-0953  •   nick98anderson@gmail.com

Skills

Languages
Python, SQL, JavaScript, Java, C++, Groovy
Tools & Technologies
Pulumi, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, React, Django, PostgreSQL, REST, SAP, Oracle EPM

Relevant Experience

TELUS · Data Engineer

May 2022 – Present
  • Technical lead across two major platform initiatives; scope covers $5B+/yr in revenue reporting, $100M+/yr in financial planning transactions, 10+ source systems, 300+ users across 7 business units.
  • Led full decommission of legacy on-prem stack (MSSQL/Informatica/SAS) and migration to GCP with zero disruption to month-end financial close; cut ~$100K/yr in licensing.
  • Partnered with stakeholders across 7 business units to translate financial planning requirements into pipeline designs, data models, and platform features.
  • Defined team engineering standards end to end: IaC, CI/CD, branching strategy, release process, design docs; onboarded 3 new developers against those standards.

Selected Projects

Financial Planning Platform

Technical Lead · 2025 – Present
  • Designed async job pipeline (Celery/Redis) for ERP write-backs with idempotent retry, per-request status tracking, and rollback; kept UI responsive under concurrent approval traffic from 300+ users.
  • Built admin interface for live data editing, request queuing, and operational control over import/export operations; LDAP-integrated role-based access controlling approval chains and data visibility.
  • Automated end-to-end posting of $100M+/yr in financial planning transactions across 7 business units; cut ~10hr manual cycles to <20min.

GCP Financial Data Mart Migration

Technical Lead · 2024 – 2026
  • Engineered source-of-truth revenue reporting pipeline tracking $5B+/yr at customer-level granularity; 15+ ELT pipelines consolidating 10+ source systems into BigQuery; 30+ downstream BI reports.
  • Built event-driven sync pipelines (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler) automating data flows between enterprise financial systems; eliminated 12+ hrs/month of manual transfers.
  • Provisioned all infrastructure as code via Pulumi; designed partitioned/clustered BigQuery tables for interactive-latency query performance; containerized batch pipelines on Cloud Run/Cloud Batch.

Education

University of Alberta · BSc, Computing Science

2019 – December 2023