About

Malachi Dunn

The advertising industry runs on data most companies don't trust. I fix that — building the measurement infrastructure that makes ad spend accountable.

I specialize in the data engineering problems that keep adtech companies up at night: attribution pipelines that silently drop conversions, identity graphs with abysmal match rates, CTV measurement systems that can't reconcile across platforms. I've spent my career at the intersection of advertising and data infrastructure — building systems that process billions of events and turn them into numbers people can actually trust.

Before founding MindWyre, I built revenue-impacting pipelines at Disney (Hulu/Disney+ ad logs), optimized ad targeting at Pinterest, and developed proprietary attribution models tracking $3.5B in annual ad spend at Kochava. I know what breaks at scale, and I know how to fix it.

When I'm not debugging why your conversions vanished, you'll find me hiking Idaho's trails, spending time with my kids, or working toward my Master's in Analytics at Georgia Tech.

Career Path

Aug. 2024 — Present

Senior Data Engineer, Martech

Martech Agency (Contract)

ETL pipelines for Experian and Liveramp ad-targeting. Media mix modeling, A/B test automation with VertexAI, and optimizing user match-rates for advertising partners.

Jan. 2024 — Jul. 2024

Lead Data Engineer, Adtech

Disney (Contract)

Built revenue-impacting data pipelines for Hulu, Disney+, and GAM ad-logs using GCP, Snowflake, Airflow, and Python. Engineered self-service reporting via Habu clean room integration.

Jan. 2023 — Jan. 2024

Data Analyst, Martech

Pinterest (Contract)

Automated insights generation for high-value advertisers using Presto, Spark SQL, and Pandas. Cohort analysis, campaign targeting optimization, and causal engagement analysis.

Jan. 2019 — Jan. 2023

Data Analyst, Adtech

Kochava (Full-Time)

Proprietary attribution modeling on $3.5B in annual ad spend. Fraud detection algorithms, LTV calculation frameworks, and incremental lift studies for clients including TikTok.

Technical Skills

Languages

Python SQL Scala R JavaScript Bash

Data Engineering

Apache Airflow Apache Spark dbt Kafka Flink Dagster

Cloud & Databases

AWS GCP Snowflake BigQuery Redshift PostgreSQL DynamoDB

Data Science & ML

PyTorch scikit-learn XGBoost LightGBM Pandas MLflow

Education & Certifications

M.S. Analytics

Georgia Institute of Technology — In Progress

B.S. Mathematics

Lewis-Clark State College

AWS Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services Certification

Publication

Featured in App Developer Magazine

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