About
Senior Data Engineer with 10+ years building data platforms, evolving from Python and SQL Server ETL to Azure Data Factory, Synapse, and Microsoft Fabric.
I design Medallion Lakehouse architectures, optimize PySpark workloads, and led the complete SQL Server-to-Fabric migration of a U.S. healthcare company, including its SSIS packages and SSRS reports.
I currently architect and administer a Fabric platform as Fabric Administrator, focusing on security, governance, and platform standards.
Fluent in English (C1), native Spanish.
What I'm looking for
I want to help a team build a data platform they can trust. I enjoy turning legacy SQL Server/SSIS setups into modern Lakehouse platforms on Microsoft Fabric or Azure, and I'm happiest on teams that value ownership, collaboration, and mentoring. Remote, GMT-4, US-hours-friendly.
Experience
Senior Data Engineer
Jul 2024 – Present
Internal project: Fabric platform architecture and administration (Fabric Administrator role) — Sep 2026 – Present
• Designing the Fabric platform architecture for an internal BairesDev initiative: capacity and workspace topology, domains, and dev/test/prod separation.
• Defining the security model (workspace roles, Entra ID groups, Lakehouse and Warehouse access) and platform standards for Medallion layering, naming, and Lakehouse structure.
• Monitoring capacity and usage through the Fabric Capacity Metrics app and the admin monitoring workspace to guide sizing and workload placement.
Client: Life Line Screening, U.S. preventive healthcare company — Jul 2024 – Aug 2026
• Led the complete migration from SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric, re-engineering SSIS packages and SSRS reports into a Bronze/Silver/Gold Lakehouse; planned it with a complexity-scoring model and component mapping, and cut end-to-end processing time by 25%.
• Cut processing time of the customer classification pipeline (new vs. returning) from 6.5 to 2.5 hours per cycle (61%) by refactoring PySpark jobs and redesigning the Bronze-to-Silver layer, with each cycle fully recomputing 2M+ customers across 10 source tables.
• Reduced monthly data-inconsistency incidents by 63%, measured in closed support tickets, by automating validations on Delta tables from Bronze to Gold.
• Built a Python monitoring safeguard on the Fabric REST API that detected failed pipeline runs, Mirroring replication errors, and semantic model refresh failures, alerting the team through a Microsoft Teams channel.
• Protected PHI with row- and column-level security and restricted external users to SQL-only access.
• Shortened deployment time from 8 hours to 1 hour by implementing CI/CD with GitHub and native Git integration in Fabric workspaces.
• Sped up a critical Spark query from 33 to 12 minutes (64%) by fixing data skew, pruning unused columns, eliminating repeated table scans, and adding caching and partitioning.
• Designed the Direct Lake star-schema semantic model behind 16 executive dashboards used by 65+ stakeholders.
• Trained 4 junior engineers in Databricks and Medallion architecture; all reached independent work within 12 weeks.
Microsoft FabricPySparkPython
BairesDev
Data Science Teaching Assistant (Part-time)
Jul 2023 – Present
• Guide students through Python, SQL, and Power BI projects built on real-world datasets.
• Mentor students on DAX, data modeling fundamentals, and cloud architecture concepts.
PythonSQLPower BI
Henry Academy
Data Solutions Architect (previously Data Consultant, Data Project Manager)
Jan 2011 – Jun 2024
• Evolved data platforms for 7 clients from Python and SQL Server ETL to Azure Data Factory and Synapse, and later to Microsoft Fabric (2023–2024).
• Built Python (pandas) ETL pipelines loading a SQL Server data warehouse, orchestrating existing stored procedures for downstream transformations.
• Cut a client's cloud consumption costs by 20% by refactoring legacy Azure Synapse and Data Factory flows: pausing idle compute, eliminating redundant pipeline runs, and replacing full loads with incremental loads.
• Built the data layer for 230+ executive and operational dashboards across client projects.
• Delivered internal training on ETL pipelines and, from 2023, on Microsoft Fabric.
PythonAzure Data FactorySQL Server
Grupo Es Ingeniería C.A.
IT Project Manager — Passports & Electronic ID
Sep 2008 – Dec 2010
• Managed national-scale identity management projects, coordinating secure data integration across multiple government agencies under strict compliance and security requirements.
Project ManagementData IntegrationSecurity Compliance
SAIME
Education
Henry Academy
Data Science & Analytics Bootcamp
2023 – 2023
Universidad Santa María
Systems Engineer (B.Sc.)
2003
Skills
SSISData GovernanceCI/CDAzure Data Lake StorageAzure Synapse AnalyticsData ModelingData WarehousingETL / ELTPythonSQLLakehouse ArchitectureDelta LakeDatabricksAzure Data FactoryApache SparkPySparkMicrosoft Fabric
Languages
Spanish (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Full professional proficiency)