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Matthew Knutson
@matthew_knutson_54lovjjq7
Data Engineer
Minneapolis, MN, United States
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Member since: Jan 21, 2025Database Developer \ Data Engineer with extensive experience developing and maintaining SQL Server database solutions, particularly data warehouse, ETL, and reporting. Over ten years of database consultant experience, working with a wide variety of clientele. Works well alone, as a team member, or as a team leader. Matt often finds himself utilized as an educational resource (teaching and answering questions) as much as a developer. Additionally, he assists colleagues with career and technical development by hosting technical events, providing one-on- one mentoring, and more.
" Enhancing and maintaining SQL-based software and backend accounting for over 50% of company revenues . Interfacing with external and internal clients to gather/manage requirements and partner on mutually beneficial solutions Collaborating with internal teams on feature requests, new clients, and troubleshooting shared tools/software
• Meeting client SLAs on new project delivery, as well as urgent requests (such as government auditing needs); while dealing with constantly-shifting priorities and requirements
• Providing technical guidance, oversight, and delegation of tasks to offshore development teams
• Temporary Scrum Master, project coordinator, and multiple other hats Achievements: . Shifted database development to a source controlled, MS SQL Database Project and CICD model, drastically reducing Production deployment errors and making non-production testing viable " Stood up a QA practice that accelerated development by catching requirements discrepancies, and reduced client-visible bugs an average of 30% . Taught and mentored junior engineers on both tools and business knowledge to the point they were able to develop to the same level as the senior staff
• Instituted team-agreed best practices with simple tools
• Drove business process improvement as part of a CEO hand-picked group (Champions of Change) SQL Server 2022 (TSQL/Stored Procs), SSIS 2019, Visual Studio 2022, C#, PowerShell, Azure DevOps, Postman, JAMS task Scheduler
• Worked on and off site as a database consultant for a wide range of clients (finance, healthcare, retail, etc ... ) . Delivered customized database solutions to meet client needs ETL (SSIS), Reporting (SSRS), query logic/stored procedures, and more . Worked as part of teams, solo, and lead small teams of developers . Assisted colleagues and clients in career and technical growth Technology: SQL Server 2000 - 2014, SSIS 2005 - 2014, SSRS 2005 - 2014, Izenda Reports, SalesForce, Visual Studio 2005 - 2015, TFS, C#, VB.NET, Android Studio, etc ...