Tera Earlywine

Staff Data Engineer | Advisor | Consultant

Tera Earlywine. Staff Data Engineer. I build data products business teams actually trust.

Selected Work

A few projects and ventures I've built or contributed to.

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Idea Factory

Founded a product studio building websites, internal tools, storefronts, and custom apps for small businesses. Evolved from The Engine Sandbox, the internal development platform I built to design, ship, host, and maintain client work.

Product Development Web Apps Internal Tools Platform Engineering

Data Infrastructure at Scale

Designed and maintained data pipelines and warehouse architecture supporting business-critical analytics across marketplace and fintech platforms.

SQL dbt BigQuery Airflow
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Portfolio & Web Apps

This site and other full-stack projects built with Flask, deployed on Google Cloud. Clean architecture with modular blueprints and server-side rendering.

Flask Python GCP HTML/CSS

Skills & Tools

Technologies I work with day to day.

Data Engineering

SQL dbt Airflow BigQuery Snowflake ETL/ELT Data Modeling

Languages & Frameworks

Python SQL Flask Pandas NumPy JavaScript HTML/CSS

Cloud & Infrastructure

Google Cloud AWS Docker CI/CD Git Terraform

AI & Analytics

LLMs OpenAI API Data Visualization Business Intelligence A/B Testing

Experience

A timeline of my career in data and engineering.

2026 — Present

Founder & Builder

Idea Factory Incorporated

Founded a product studio from The Engine Sandbox, an internal development platform I built. I design, ship, host, and maintain websites and custom software for small businesses.

2026 — Present

Advisor | Consultant

Independent Consulting

Advise Block's compliance data engineering team and design an automated platform for on-call operations.

2025 — 2026

Staff Data Engineer

Block.xyz

Full-time staff data engineering role building and scaling data infrastructure for the finplat team.

2024 — 2025

Senior Data Consultant (Qbiz)

Block.xyz

2023 — 2024

Data Engineer

Mercari

2022 — 2023

Data Warehouse Engineer

Mercari

2021 — 2022

Data Analytics Engineer

This is Alice

2020 — 2021

Business Intelligence Analyst

Mercari

2018 — 2020

Jr. Business Intelligence Analyst

Mercari

Where it all began — learning SQL, data modeling, and analytics foundations.

Kind Words

From colleagues and collaborators.

Tera brings a rare combination of technical depth and creative problem-solving. She doesn't just build pipelines — she architects systems that teams actually enjoy working with.

— Colleague

Data Engineering

One of the most thoughtful engineers I've worked with. Tera has a talent for simplifying complexity and making data accessible to everyone on the team.

— Collaborator

Product & Analytics

Let's Connect

Whether it's a data challenge, a collaboration idea, or just a conversation — I'd love to hear from you.