Tommy Unger

Tommy Unger is the data visualization lead at Qumulo in Seattle, where he leads Qumulo's efforts to analyze and visualize petabytes of data by leveraging a variety of technologies and tools. In this role, Unger incorporates visualization principles as well as design, user experience, statistics and code to help build informative and actionable visualizations.

Prior to joining Qumulo, Unger explored data, solved problems and told stories through visualization in residential real estate and online marketing. He began his career in Seattle at Microsoft, measuring, reporting and visualizing performance of the ASP.NET Web platform. He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

EXPERIENCE

University of Washington

• Data Visualization Instructor 2016 - Present (over 3 years)
• Teaching technical strategies of data visualization to working professionals via online and in-person classes.

Qumulo

• Data Visualization Lead 2014 - Present (almost 5 years)
• Research, design, prototype and test Qumulo's product based data visualizations.

Redfin

• Real Estate Data Scientist 2013 - 2014 (about 1 year)
• Researching and building a variety of realestate based, data driven solutions for the PR and Marketing teams

Optify

• Director of Data & Analytics 2010 - 2013 (about 3 years)
• Lead the data & analytics product development for a online marketing software suite

All Star Directories

Web and Data Developer 2004 - 2005 (over 1 year)

Microsoft

SDET 2001 - 2004 (over 2 years)

EMPLOYEE

Microsoft, Redfin, Qumulo, Optify, University of Washington, All Star Directories

EDUCATION

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BS, Computer Science

ACHIEVEMENTS

In 2016 I began teaching a technical data visualization strategies course at the University of Washington PCE department. While helping lead the data visualization of the product at Qumulo, I've found time on evenings and weekends to teach data visualization which has been challenging and rewarding.

SKILLS

ASP.NET Business Intelligence Linux Microsoft SQL Server MySQL PHP PostgreSQL Product Real Estate Statistics SQL Advertising C# CSS Data Analysis German Language HTML Java Javascript jQuery Metrics Performance Testing Product Management Analytics Data Visualization