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Adam Kenawell

Data Engineer with hands-on experience building agentic AI solutions, scalable data pipelines, and predictive models. Passionate about applying AI innovation to drive measurable impact at scale.

Experience

Data Engineer May 2022 — Present
Ford Motor Company
  • Design and maintain scalable data pipelines using GCP BigQuery, Vertex AI, dbt Core, and Astronomer Airflow for internal analytics products
  • Lead onboarding of new data sources into DBC (Digital Birth Certificate), an agentic AI product that resolves vehicle manufacturing root-cause issues
  • Contributed to agentic AI solution that saved Ford an estimated $68M+ in its first two months of operation (Feb–Mar 2026)
  • Personally drove $5M+ in cost savings through AI-powered automation and analytics in March 2026
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business teams to translate complex requirements into data-driven solutions
  • Apply prompt engineering techniques with Anthropic Claude API and Vertex AI to optimize AI agent performance

Education

M.S. in Data Science In Progress, 2025–2028
Bellevue University GPA: 4.0
B.S. in Data Science, Minor in Mathematics 2019–2023
The Pennsylvania State University GPA: 3.65

Achievements

  • "Moving the Business Forward" Award — Ford Motor Company (2026)
  • Best Overall — Penn State Data Science Hackathon (2023)
  • Computer Science Departmental Award — South Fayette School District (2019)

Technical Skills

Cloud & Data

GCPBigQueryDataflowVertex AIdbt CoreAstronomer AirflowLooker Studio

Languages & AI

PythonSQLRPrompt EngineeringAnthropic Claude APIAgentic AIGenerative AINLP

Analytics & Tools

Microsoft Power BIStatisticsMathematicsGitJupyter