James Menden
About James Menden
James Menden is an Advanced Data Engineer at General Mills in Golden Valley, Minnesota, with a background in application development and IT support.
Title
James Menden holds the position of Advanced Data Engineer at General Mills, based in Golden Valley, Minnesota, United States.
Company
James Menden is currently employed at General Mills. He has a significant role in managing and engineering data processes for the company, contributing to enhancing their pricing strategy and commercial reporting for the North American Retail business.
Previous Roles and Experience
Previously, James Menden worked at General Mills as an Application Developer from 2020 to 2021 for 11 months and as an Application Developer Intern in 2019 for 2 months. His earlier experience includes working at UW-Madison, Division of Information Technology (DoIT), where he served as a Student Team Lead for 3 years from 2017 to 2020 and Help Desk Support Specialist for 4 years from 2016 to 2020.
Education and Expertise
James Menden graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Sciences. His expertise includes developing data pipelines using Scala and SQL, integrating data tables and views into Tableau, and utilizing Cloudera Hadoop and Google Cloud Platform BigQuery for data lake and data warehouse platforms. Additionally, he has experience with Apache Airflow for task scheduling.
Skills in Data Engineering
James Menden has demonstrated extensive skills in data engineering, including the development of data pipelines and integration with business intelligence tools. At General Mills, he developed data pipelines in Scala and SQL and integrated these into Tableau for business user consumption. He also worked with Cloudera Hadoop and Google Cloud Platform BigQuery, enhancing the organization's data lake and warehouse capabilities, and used Apache Airflow for scheduling tasks.