Todd Birchard

Former product manager turned data engineer with ongoing identity crisis. Breaks everything before learning concepts known as ‘best practices’. Completely normal and emotionally stable.

New York City Joined on Nov 12, 2018 https://hackersandslackers.com

Education

Drexel University

Work

Software Engineer at Fanduel

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Apr 23

Serving Assets via CDN with Google Cloud

#googlecloud #architecture #devops #software

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Getting Started with Django

Thanks Max, that means a lot! I completely agree with your ...

Dec 6 '19

10 Ways To Get Active In The Data Community

Totally nailed it. Specialization in technical fields is un...

Oct 10 '19

Yet Another Unsolicited "Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas" Post

u da real mvp <3

Mar 11 '19

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Feb 2

Async HTTP Requests with Aiohttp & Aiofiles

#concurrency #python #scraping #automation

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Jan 10

Intro to Asynchronous Python with Asyncio

#python #software #asyncio #concurrency

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Jan 8

Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu 20.04

#devops #architecture #python

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Sep 3 '20

Create Cloud-hosted Charts with Plotly Chart Studio

#plotly #python #datascience #dataanalysis

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Aug 8 '20

Scrape Structured Data with Python and Extruct

#python #scraping #dataengineering #scraper

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Aug 3 '20

Deploy Serverless Golang Functions with Netlify

#jamstack #go #gatsby #softwaredevelopment

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Jun 12 '20

Connecting Pandas to a Database with SQLAlchemy

#pandas #python #dataanalysis #sql

8 min read

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Jun 11 '20

Scraping Data on the Web with BeautifulSoup

#python #scrapers #data #dataengineering

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Jun 11 '20

Understanding GatsbyJS: Create Your First Gatsby Theme

#gatsby #jamstack #javascript #softwaredevelopment

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Jun 10 '20

Building Java Projects with Gradle

#java #softwaredevelopment #gradle #groovy

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Jun 1 '20

Deploy a Golang Web Application Behind Nginx

#go #devops #softwaredevelopment

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May 26 '20

Create Your First Golang App

#go #softwaredevelopment

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May 18 '20

Configuring Your Flask App

#flask #python #software

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May 16 '20

Organizing Flask Apps with Blueprints

#flask #python #software

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Apr 27 '20

Integrate Plotly Dash Into Your Flask App

#plotly #flask #python #datascience

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Apr 24 '20

Creating Interactive Views in Django

#django #python #software #webdev

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Mar 26 '20

Extract Nested Data From Complex JSON

#python #restapis #dataengineering

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Mar 18 '20

Compiling and Serving Frontend Assets in Flask

#flask #python #software #frontend

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Mar 4 '20

The Art of Routing in Flask

#flask #python #softwaredevelopment

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Mar 2 '20

Handle User Accounts & Authentication in Flask with Flask-Login

#flask #software #python

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Feb 26 '20

Deploy Flask Applications with uWSGI and Nginx

#devops #architecture #python #flask

10 min read

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Feb 13 '20

Psycopg2: PostgreSQL & Python (the Old Fashioned Way)

#postgres #python #sql #dataengineering

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Feb 6 '20

Using Redis In-Memory Storage for your Python Applications

#nosql #python #softwaredevelopment #architecture

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Jan 27 '20

Package Python Projects the Proper Way with Poetry

#python #softwaredevelopment #devops

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May 24

SSH & SCP in Python with Paramiko

#python #automation #devops

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Dec 5 '19

Getting Started with Django

#python #software #django #web

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Dec 6 '19

Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu

#devops #architecture #python

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Feb 11 '20

Simplify BigQuery ETL jobs using SQLAlchemy

#datawarehouses #python #sql #googlecloud

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Oct 21 '19

Comparing Rows Between Two Pandas DataFrames

#pandas #python #dataanalysis #datascience

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Aug 1 '19

Using Amazon Redshift as your Data Warehouse

#datawarehouses #aws #devops #architecture

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Jul 16 '19

Managing Relationships in SQLAlchemy Data Models

#python #software #sql

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May 15

Define Relationships Between SQLAlchemy Data Models

#sqlalchemy #python #software #sql

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Jun 22 '19

Manage Files in Google Cloud Storage With Python

#googlecloud #python #architecture #gcp

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Jun 25 '19

Manage Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow

#apache #python #dataengineering #etl

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Aug 7 '19

Using Hierarchical Indexes With Pandas

#pandas #dataanalysis #python #datascience

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Feb 12 '20

Managing Session Data with Flask-Session & Redis

#flask #python #softwaredevelopment #nosql

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Jun 6 '19

Reshaping Pandas DataFrames

#pandas #python #dataanalysis

13 min read

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Oct 10 '19

Structured Streaming in PySpark

#spark #apache #python #dataengineering

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Oct 8 '19

Becoming Familiar with Apache Kafka and Message Queues

#apache #dataengineering #etl

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Jun 26 '19

Plotting Data With Seaborn and Pandas

#datascience #pandas #datavis #python

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Jun 23 '19

Upgrading to JupyterLab on Ubuntu

#datascience #python #devops

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Jun 20 '19

Using Flask-Login to Handle User Accounts

#flask #softwaredevelopment #python

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Mar 4 '19

Running Jupyter Notebooks on a Ubuntu Server

#datascience #devops #architecture

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Mar 1 '19

Drawing Mapbox Route Objects via the Directions API

#datavis #datascience #python

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Mar 12 '19

Welcome to SQL 3: Building Relationships and Combining Data Sets

#sql #database #mysql #postgres

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Feb 28 '19

Welcome to SQL 2: Working With Data Values

#sql #database #mysql #postgres

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Feb 26 '19

Making API Requests with NodeJS

#node #restapis #javascript

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Feb 26 '19

Welcome to SQL: Modifying Databases and Tables

#sql #database #analysis #software

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Mar 10 '19

Yet Another Unsolicited "Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas" Post

#pandas #python #dataanalysis

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Oct 25 '19

Connect Flask to a Database with Flask-SQLAlchemy

#flask #python #sql #software

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Feb 4 '19

Easily Build GraphQL APIs with Prisma

#graphql #saasproducts #architecture #devops

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Feb 19 '19

Google BigQuery's Python SDK: Creating Tables Programmatically

#bigdata #python #googlecloud

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May 15

Queries as Python Code with SQLAlchemy's Expression Language

#sqlalchemy #python #sql #software

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May 15

Implement ORM Data Models with SQLAlchemy

#sqlalchemy #python #sql #software

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Jan 25 '19

From CSVs to Tables: Infer Schema Data Types From Raw Spreadsheets

#bigdata #python #dataengineering #sql

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Jan 18 '19

The Hostile Extraction of Tableau Server Data

#tableau #python #restapis

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May 15

Databases in Python Made Easy with SQLAlchemy

#sqlalchemy #sql #python #data

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Jan 28 '19

Poetically Packaging Your Python Project

#python #devops #softwaredevelopment

8 min read

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Jan 18 '19

Using Redis to Store Information in Python Applications

#nosql #python #softwaredevelopment

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