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Evan Appel

AI Solutions Engineer

appelew@gmail.comgithub.com/EvanWAppellinkedin.com/in/evan-appel

Summary

Solutions / customer engineer who uses AI development tools daily and teaches others to adopt them. Runs weekly technical workshops (since Aug 2024, up to 20 attendees), wrote a 5,000-line internal manual adopted across a 100-analyst organization, and personally drove Git adoption org-wide. Won 3rd in a C-suite-judged AI hackathon by making agent-built work legible to executives. Came to AI from analytics — bridges analysts, business users, and engineers.

Skills

Enablement & communication: technical teaching, workshop facilitation, live demos, executive-legible storytelling, documentation, mentoring

AI tool fluency: Claude Code (daily), Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot, GitLab Duo, Qwen, NotebookLM; local models via Ollama; RECL methodology; PRD/AGENTS/TASKS scaffolding

Technical depth: Python, SQL, Snowflake, Git / GitLab CI/CD, TypeScript / JavaScript (working), pytest

Bridge domains: marketing analytics, consumer credit / financial services; analyst-to-engineer translation

Experience

Marketing Analyst·Credit One Bank
Feb 2023 – Present

Internal AI / Python enablement lead · Python & Git authority for a 100-analyst organization

  • –Recognized Python & Git/GitLab authority for a 100-analyst organization; personally drove Git adoption org-wide through demos, group workshops, and 1:1 tutoring where none existed before.
  • –Run weekly Python / agentic-tooling workshops since Aug 2024 (regular 4–10, up to 20) across multiple proficiency levels; built and maintain an internal knowledge base of guides, examples, and tooling for analysts.
  • –Authored a 5,000-line internal manual (git, packaging, validation, query optimization, secrets, merge gates) adopted across the analyst organization.
  • –Led a three-person team to 3rd place in the bank-wide AI Hackathon (C-suite judges) — strength was a working demo with a clear business punchline (weeks → hour, costly → cheap).
  • –Lead a 30-project SAS-to-Python migration to Snowflake (six teammates) and built the team's first GitLab CI/CD pipeline — credibility comes from shipping, not just advising.
Data Analyst·Coin Cloud
Jan 2021 – Dec 2022
  • –Owned weekly cash-pickup route design for a cryptocurrency-ATM fleet from per-ATM fill data — balancing lost transactions against agent time, with direct financial and operational stakes.
  • –Acting backup manager; mentored junior analysts. SQL / Python / Tableau / Redshift.
Data Analyst, Engineering Dept.·Precision Opinion
Dec 2019 – Jan 2021
  • –Wrote SQL reporting for call-center management; owned PM and requirements gathering — the interface translating business stakeholders to the engineering team on a bespoke timekeeping software build.
Data Analyst → Data Scientist·Forms Direct
May 2012 – Oct 2019
  • –Self-directed path from marketing content writer to in-house data analyst over 7+ years (SQL, Python, Excel, Mode Analytics); managed a small remote team.

Education & Certifications

B.A. Journalism, Minor in Sociology·University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2007 – 2012
  • –Snowflake Hands-On Essentials — Data Warehousing & Data Lake
  • –PyCon US 2026 — incl. "Professional Python: From Vibes to Verification" (Matt Harrison)
  • –Codecademy Data Engineer path (in progress, 2026)