Willis Nana

Willis Nana is an experienced data engineer and an influential leader in his field.

Willis currently works as an independent data engineering consultant, offering his services to various companies in Montreal. As a Lead Data Engineer, he excels at leading complex data projects and managing data engineering teams. He creates a collaborative environment where ideas and technical skills are valued, and focuses on empowering team members, fostering their professional growth and ensuring project deliverables meet the highest quality standards.

In addition, as a Senior Data Engineer, Willis brings deep technical expertise and strategic vision to developing and optimizing data platforms. His skills include building data platforms, data modeling, using Big Data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, as well as implementing ETL and CI/CD processes (Git, Gitlab/Azure DevOps/Github) to ensure seamless integration and analysis of large-scale datasets.

Willis also has an active online presence as a YouTube content creator, where he shares his passion for data engineering, programming and travel.

Among his past roles, Willis held Senior Data Engineer positions at Ticketmaster, where he contributed to building data infrastructure and data products for the company's vision, and at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), where he developed data products to help traders make informed decisions.

Before that, he worked at 1Password as Senior Data Engineer, where he implemented ETL/ELT processes and introduced a data analytics culture within the company.

Before his time at 1Password, Willis worked at Ubisoft as a Data Engineer, where he was involved in several game development projects, including Rainbow Six Mobile, Roller Champions, Rainbow Six: Extraction and others.

His career also includes experience at Keyrus as a data consultant, where he worked with clients such as Ivanhoé Cambridge and Groupe Deschênes.