Connor Ludwig

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I'm a seasoned Software Engineer with a wide range of professional experience. From enabling secure embedded software purchases to supporting a petabyte-scale data lake platform, I've embraced each new challenge to learn new technologies and deliver a great customer experience.

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I live in Chicago, Illinois but am originally from rural Iowa. Outside of work I love diving into a good book, keeping up with my favorite teams, and searching for the best food around.

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I'm passionate about using technology to overcome key pain points for customers. I'm always learning new tools and tech to improve my workstyle and help deliver a better product.

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Key Projects

🛰️ Distributed Licensing at the Edge: I've extended embedded licensing platforms to encompass all connected controllers, optimizing security and file sizes.

💼 Recurring Revenue Licensing Service: I created a novel licensing API platform enabling seamless ordering of embedded technologies, featuring IoT license delivery, enhanced data collection, and expanded product marketing options.

🌐 Enterprise Data Catalog: I spearheaded the creation of a modern web application simplifying data discovery, governance, and management for Deere's data lake.

Skills Snapshot:

🛠️ JavaScript, Node.js, Java, TypeScript, React.js, Express.js, Terraform, AWS, SQL, Git, Docker, Python, Scala, Next.js, Apache Spark, C#, C++, D3.js, MongoDB, HTML, CSS, Sass, HTML5, and more.

Certifications & Awards:

🏆 Deere Embedded Solutions “Exceptional Collaborator Award” (‘22)
🏆 Databricks Data & AI Summit “Data Team Innovation Award” Winner (‘21)
🏆 AWS Developer Associate (Certified)
🏆 AWS Solutions Architect Associate (Certified)
🏆 Python for Data Science (Certified)
🏆 Blue River Machine Learning & AI (Certified)