Andrew Jones
London area, UK, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Jones is a Principal Data Engineer and independent data consultant who helps organisations transform data into trusted, governed, and federated information through data contracts. He authored the definitive book on data contracts in 2024, which has earned a 4.7-star rating on Amazon, and now guides dozens of teams in building autonomous data platforms. Based near London, he has worked with organisations across the US, Europe, and Asia, delivering architecture that couples governance with speed. He is currently Principal Data Engineer at Springer Nature (2025–present) while continuing his independent practice. His 15-year career spans senior engineering roles at GoCardless and a long tenure at ARM, grounding his leadership in hands-on delivery of scalable data systems. An advocate for data contracts and federated governance, Andrew combines strategic vision with practical coaching to turn complex requirements into auditable, reliable data platforms.
15 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,831reputation
1.5mreached
27answers
9questions
gcc
top-5%
warnings
top-5%
Github Skills (150)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
sftp10
ssh10
apache-airflow10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
elt10
data-integration10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
data-science10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gocardless/airflow-dbt
Feb 2020 - May 2022
Apache Airflow integration for dbt
Contributions:10 reviews, 48 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 3 months
bigqueryapachedata-lineagedbtairflow
andrewrjones/perl5-WebService-TVDB
Feb 2012 - Nov 2013
Contributions:97 commits in 1 year 9 months
perlthetvdb
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