About Me

I’m a Seattle-based data engineer, husband, author, and former film colorist / dailies technician.

I currently work with SilverRide to build mission-driven mobility technology for older adults and people who need extra assistance getting where they need to go. In my spare time I enjoy strumming the guitar, cooking for my wife and friends, and playing with my cats.

Lately, I’ve built heaps of automated solutions on Azure and AWS with agentic coding tools like OpenAI’s Codex. I get excited about image analysis and visual question answering tasks.

The Spring of Sight (2022) is my debut nonfiction book. It’s about the ongoing renaissance in Computer Vision and its big implications for society.

Selected Highlights

• AWS Certified Data Engineer in 2025.
• IMDb credits across editorial, camera/electrical, cinematography, editing, visual effects, and sound roles.
• Author of The Spring of Sight, a nonfiction computer-vision book published by New Degree Press and sold through major book retailers.
• Built a film slate detector by fine-tuning object detection models on a custom labeled dataset.
• Helped film and photograph a Santa Clara University fellowship project in Myanmar, covered by Santa Clara Magazine.

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Career Overview

• See my career history on LinkedIn

Data Engineering & Technical Skills

• Data engineer specializing in:
  • Computer vision
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Python, SQL, automation, OpenTofu, Docker, and cloud data pipelines
• Coding professionally since 2019 in roles such as:
  • “Data Science Lead” at Butter Works
  • “Sr. Data Mining Engineer” at Angi
• Fan of:
  • Tidy software development lifecycles; test-driven development
  • Infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration
  • Challenging but healthy work environments
• Enjoys building custom datasets for fine-tuning vision models

Former Career in Cinema

• Credited as a colorist or dailies technician on major movies and TV shows featuring:
  • Pedro Pascal / Oscar Isaac / Charlie Hunnam
  • Spike Lee / DeWanda Wise / Anthony Ramos
  • Paul Giamatti / Maggie Siff / Damian Lewis
  • Errol Morris / Peter Sarsgaard

Trivia

• The 2018 New York Times piece on my move from the SFBay to NYC
• Eating a flaming muffin in a semi-popular music video from 2011
• Walking clear across the state of California as part of a university class
• Getting quoted in SFGATE after said walk, while badly needing a shower

About This Site

• Built with the Congo theme on Hugo, “the world’s fastest framework”
• Deployed via GitHub Pages with automatic GitHub Actions
• Amazon Route 53 for DNS stuff

Contact

Feel free to email me at rob[at]boscacci[dot]com!