Barel Alcantara

About Barel Alcantara

Data Engineer with years of experience developing reliable and scalable data pipelines and data-driven solutions.My background in data, software, and hardware engineering have augmented my understanding of IT/Engineering architectures and solutions. I enjoy the challenge of projects that require deep thought, exploration, and tinkering - as well as the satisfaction of putting it all together and making it work.Most recent dev: Spark (PySpark, SparkSQL), AWS (Athena, Aurora, EMR, Glue, RedShift, Kinesis), PostgresSQL (Redshift, Greenplum), Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, Snowpark, Snowpipe StreamingFor fun: Cryptocurrency mining and blockchain technologies, RaspberryPi, Arduino, robotics, retro-gaming (console emulation)

Experience

1. Sr Staff Data Engineer

   Favor Delivery

   Dec 2020 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   I lead a squad of data engineers, spearheading dev and maintenance of data pipelines and integration solutions to power decision-making analytics, data science, and marketing ops at Favor.

Education

• Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering

  2007

Skills

• Etl
• Raspberry Pi
• Greenplum
• Jquery
• Databases
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Pentaho
• Tortoise Svn
• Web Development
• C++
• Relational Databases
• Javascript
• Data Warehousing
• Subversion
• Pgsql
• Mysql
• System Migration
• Aerospace
• Software Engineering
• Datastage
• Troubleshooting
• Agile Methodologies
• Toad
• Hadoop
• Unix
• Data Modeling
• Apache Spark
• Apache Kafka
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Verilog
• Chemical Industry
• Software Development
• Nosql
• Ssis
• Firebird
• Java
• Arduino
• Sql Tuning
• Jira