LD
Legal → Data Engineering
Former paralegal building the doc-review pipeline lawyers actually trust
Former paralegal building the doc-review pipeline lawyers actually trust
Verified Domain Engineer (Beta)
Engineering Depth 2/5
Pivot Story
“Legal discovery is mostly pattern-matching at scale. Once I automated my own review workflow, the partners started asking me to build tools for the whole team. I took that as a sign and went all in on data engineering.”
Finance
Legal
The Past
Jan 2012 - Jun 2017 (5 years 5 months)
Paralegal
Handled document review and deposition prep in commercial litigation. Managed discovery for cases with 500K+ documents.
The Now
Jan 2018 - Present (8 years 3 months)
Data Engineer
Shipping ETL pipelines that ingest, classify, and deduplicate legal documents. Stack is Python, Airflow, and Elasticsearch. Reduced review time 40% on the last matter.
About
After five years reviewing discovery documents, I started scripting the repetitive parts. That turned into a data engineering role building NLP-powered contract analysis for mid-size firms.
Domain Signals
Domain Focus
Legal
Tech Focus
Data Engineering
Engineering Depth
Level 2/5
Self-rated hands-on software depth.