Thomas Wadley

Senior data engineer and software developer with 15+ years of experience building enterprise data ingestion, transformation, and activation solutions. Hands-on experience across Databricks, Snowflake, Oracle, Hadoop/Spark, AWS, and GCP, with strong Python and SQL expertise. Delivers production data pipelines and API integrations that connect customer data to downstream platforms, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and operational resilience.

Notable results include reducing a Python credit-scoring process from 18 hours to 2.5 hours and supporting high-volume marketing data workflows.

Senior Solution Developer / Data Engineer — Toyota Marketing & Data Platforms - ACXIOM - Conway, AR

(2019 - 2026)

Engineered ingestion, transformation, and customer-data activation solutions across Southeast Toyota (SET), Gulf States Toyota (GST), Toyota Motor North America (TMNA), and the Data Onboarding and Activation Platform (DOAP).

• Designed, developed, tested, and delivered Databricks ingestion and activation workflows for Toyota clients. Produced 25 LiveRamp delivery weekly files covering customer, prospect, sales, and propensity-score data in a DOAP environment spanning approximately 260 million records.
• Partnered directly with clients on requirements and delivery decisions, including suppression, ID-bursting, encryption, and downstream data delivery.
• Designed and implemented a real-time ID.me discount-validation workflow for dealership use, connecting AWS API Gateway and Lambda processing with MongoDB to support eligibility checks.
• Built an Infobip webhook integration for Adobe Campaign SMS programs supporting 50,000+ messages per campaign. Used AWS Lambda for processing, SQS for error handling and retries, and S3 for data retention, with JSON retrieval and downstream Oracle ingestion.
• Delivered Snowflake and Databricks solutions on AWS for Gulf States Toyota, including GCP integrations; developed Oracle-based ingestion, Hadoop/Spark anonymization, and Azure API integrations across Toyota programs.
• Tuned Oracle SQL and production data flows to reduce build times and improve stability; supported marketing workflows and customer-data hygiene across enterprise platforms.

Lead Developer, Capital One - ACXIOM - Conway, AR

(2017 - 2019)

• Led development of a Python credit-scoring engine that reduced processing time from 18 hours to 2.5 hours.
• Built a Spring Boot workflow tracker and tuned PL/SQL matching for campaigns involving 110 million direct-mail pieces monthly.

Production Developer / Solution Developer - ACXIOM - Conway, AR

(2014 - 2017)

• Built Hadoop analytics and ETL using Hive, Java, Python, and R; automated aggregation and scheduling, saving hundreds of labor hours.
• Developed data validation, routing, mapping, cleansing, and blending workflows.

Lead Developer, SafeHaven Anonymization and Collaborative Targeting - ACXIOM - Conway, AR

(2012 - 2014)

• Scaled anonymization and distribution to 240 million individuals and 4,000+ audience characteristics; migrated thousands of files to LiveRamp and contributed to reducing average solution setup from 12 weeks to under two weeks.

Associate Solution Developer - ACXIOM - Conway, AR

(2011 - 2012)

• Developed backend delivery and automation solutions using Perl, Python, C#, shell, and Oracle.

M.S. - Data Science & Analytics - University of Missouri (2020)

B.S. - Computer Science - University of Arkansas at Little Rock (2011)