Manuel Escalona

Data Engineer @Hearst

NY, US

Design, develop and improve cloud-native data workflows across subscription, e-commerce, affiliate marketing, and web analytics data, making it more reliable, scalable, and actionable for teams across the business.• Improved the subscription processing middleware by building pipelines that capture Chargebee webhook events, process customer data, and deliver it to third-party systems (Vimeo, Rufus, CDS, etc.) via API, improving reliability and downstream integrations.• Migrated and integrated large volumes of data (e.g, Sailthru, Google Search Console, affiliate marketing) into BigQuery, including historical backfills from S3.• Designed and implemented privacy-compliant data models (Bronze/Silver/Gold layers) to strengthen governance, retention, and analytics quality.• Built and orchestrated pipelines using Apache Airflow, Python, Kubernetes, and other GCP services (BigQuery, GCS, Data Transfer Service, etc) to scale integrations and streamline ETL processes.

University of Florida

Master of Sciences

Santa Fe College

Associate in Science

Universidad Tecnológica del Centro

Bachelor of Sciences