Diego N.

Diego N.

Data Engineer

Argentina
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About Me

Skilled Data Engineer focused on using data science and data engineering to help companies leverage data in favour of their product/business. Demonstrated proficiency in deriving valuable insights from data to solve business problems. I have a strong engineering background and significant experience as a backend, front-end, and full-stack developer allowing me to autonomously build solutions end-to-end. Highly proactive, I have a keen interest in opportunities focused on data science and machine learning.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Data Engineer
2020 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Create and implement data analysis pipelines, including data access, ingestion, munging / manipulation / cleansing, analysis / modelling, testing, deployment / integration into business applications and services.

  • Enhance operational aspects of businesses by increasing control of the company's data.

  • Working in cross-functional teams to provide data-driven solutions for increased efficiency and productivity.

Decentraland
Decentraland
Data Engineer
2018 - 2020 (2 years)
United States
  • Performed data engineering, reporting and data analysis, managing all data operations across the company.

  • Set up a framework for collecting, analyzing, and extracting business value from the events of multiple products.

  • Leveraging Apache Airflow to run data workflows, AWS redshift as an analytical database, DBT to model data, Metabase to produce dashboards, Jupyter-Notebooks to run custom analysis and reports. Also A/B testing, user-behavior analysis, growth analytics.

Almundo
Almundo
Big Data Engineer
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Argentina
  • Worked as a member of the data science team, researching and implementing product recommendation models in Apache Spark and then placing those models into a production environment.

  • Used Apache Spark jobs to leverage Matrix Factorization and other algorithms, used python and Jupyter-notebooks for data analysis, building models, and model evaluation.

  • Developed Java web-services to bring these models into production.

Real Trends
Real Trends
Big Data Engineer
2017 - 2017
Argentina
  • Performed end to end development of a big data application to perform market analysis on the MercadoLibre platform.

  • Closely collaborated with the development team to assess the company’s Big Data infrastructure.

  • Created data processing frameworks and data tracking programs.

EIWA
EIWA
Data Engineer
2016 - 2016
Argentina
  • Designed a data processing pipeline for Cloud operations using Python, AWS, RabbitMQ, MongoDb.

  • Understand necessary data requirements and optimized solutions for performance and scalability.

  • Ensured a good data flow between databases and the back-end system.

Foffer
Foffer
Full Stack Developer
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Remote
  • Developed from scratch an e-commerce solution for a marketplace using MEAN stack.

  • Generated process improvements and workflow enhancements for the application.

  • Actively collaborated with Development, Testing, Design, and Digital Marketing teams in delivery execution of the application.

Antena
Co-Founder
2012 - 2015 (3 years)
Argentina
  • Created and maintained a data visualization studio focused on open-data projects.

  • Acted as a Full Stack developer using Play Framework, MongoDB, MySQL, Angular.js for projects.

  • Oversaw product development and permanently communicated with the development team for planning and refining the requirements.

Popego
Popego
Java Developer
2012 - 2013 (1 year)
Argentina
  • Developed an engine capable of managing Twitter campaigns, interacting with different APIs, and storing different metrics for analytics.

  • Developed a high throughput pipeline for storing and displaying tweets using ActiveMQ, MongoDB, and Redis.

  • Collaborated with other departments and stakeholders on software development, improvements, internal tools, and implementation issues

Vostu
Vostu
Java Developer
2010 - 2012 (2 years)
Argentina
  • Performed back-end development for several high-traffic html/flash based social games with weekly deploys and a distributed environment.

  • Executed functionality testing and maintenance tasks across multiple clients.

  • Monitored progress against task estimates to provided status to stakeholders.

Portfolio

Big Data Developer - Almundo
Big Data Developer - Almundo

Almundo is the fastest growing omnichannel travel company in Latin America. Through innovative technology and the talent of more than 800 professionals, they offer millions of travelers a digital and mobile platform for searching and booking travel services. They are part of CVC Corp, the largest travel group in Brazil and Latin America, made up of ten brands geared towards different segments. Worked as a member of the data science team, researching and implementing product recommendation models in Apache Spark and then placing those models into a production environment. Technologies used in the project: AWS, Apache Spark, Java, Scikit-learn, Python, Docker.

Big Data Developer - Real-Trends
Big Data Developer - Real-Trends

Real Trends is the leading platform in analysis and management tools for Mercado Libre sellers in the Latin America region. Their main values ​​are excellence, commitment, empathy, teamwork, transparency, and metric orientation. The platform offers the best tools for sellers: a tool to answer questions in record time, with quick answers, automatic cost calculation by MercadoEnvíos, predefined greeting and signature, shortcuts keyboard, history, and more. I performed end to end development of a Big data application to perform a market analysis on the MercadoLibre platform. Technologies used in the project: AWS, S3, Python, Celery, Apache Spark, Luigi, MongoDB, Flask.

Lead Data Engineer - Decentraland
Lead Data Engineer - Decentraland

Decentraland is a startup that received 30M+ USD to create a virtual world owned by its users . Started in Dec 2017, It was successfully launched in Feb 2020 and has built a strong community of more than 10k+ users creating content inside the world. Acted as Lead Data Engineer that managed all data operations across the company including data engineering, data analysis, reporting and user-behavior analysis. I built from ground up all data infrastructure for storage, processing, querying and reporting, instrumenting several ETLs in Apache Airflow collecting data from different websites as well as the Ethereum blockchain. Technologies used in the project: AWS, Python, Apache Airflow, S3, AWS Redshift, Jupyter-notebooks, DBT, Metabase, Flask, Scikit-learn, d3.js.

Education

Education
BSc. in Computer Science
Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires
2005 - 2010 (5 years)
Education
XSeries Big Data; Verified Certificate for Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark; Verified Certificate for Scalable Machine Learning.
edX Certifications
Education
Machine Learning Specialization; Machine Learning: Clustering and Retrieval; Machine Learning: Classification; Machine Learning: Regression; Functional Programming Principles in Scala.
Coursera