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Data Engineer with 4 years of professional experience designing scalable data pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure. Highly Skilled in SQL, Python, Java, and AWS, with a strong foundation in application development and data architecture that drives actionable insights.

About Me

San Antonio, Texas
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Data Engineer & Cloud Architect

Primary focus: optimization of data workflows and infrastructure, turning complex business requirements into efficient, reliable pipelines that deliver actionable insights and enable decision making.

Backed by over 10 years of development experience and 4 years of professional practice, I’ve built a foundation in crafting highly efficient and robust data solutions; leveraging SQL, Java, Python, AWS to bridge strategy with execution.

I operate at the intersection of application development and data architecture, enabling teams to unlock insights and make better decisions through reliable, well-structured, efficient data systems.

Core Expertise

4 years
Professional Experience
10+ years
Dev Experience
AWS
Cloud Platform
SQL, Java
Primary Language(s)

Professional Experience

Head Data Engineer, Solutions Architect

Investment Services

USAA

2025 - Present
  • Architected and deployed enterprise-grade data infrastructure supporting investment services, enabling secure, high-throughput transaction processing with a strategic third-party partner.
  • Established foundational data governance, documentation, and operational frameworks to ensure auditability, regulatory compliance, and long-term scalability.
  • Led cross functional engineering efforts to design fault tolerant pipelines and cloud native platforms, guaranteeing seamless execution of Member investment transactions and supporting high-revenue business operations at scale.

Data Engineer

Member Feedback

USAA

2023 - 2025
  • Engineered resilient ETL pipelines to process and standardize multi-source member feedback data, transforming unstructured after-call survey responses into high-fidelity datasets powering advanced analytics and executive decision-making.
  • Optimized workflows for performance and cost efficiency across cloud platforms, while ensuring strict adherence to data quality, availability, and compliance standards.
  • Partnered with business stakeholders to design data models that accelerated insights into customer sentiment, directly influencing product improvements and operational strategy in a high-volume enterprise environment.

AI/ML Engineer Intern

Life Events

USAA

2022
  • Designed, trained, and operationalized machine learning models predicting member life events with high accuracy, enabling proactive engagement strategies and precision-driven financial product recommendations.
  • Delivered scalable ML services with robust MLOps pipelines for continuous retraining, monitoring, and deployment, ensuring model performance under real-world workloads.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate predictive intelligence into core business workflows, improving personalization, deepening member relationships, and driving measurable revenue growth through data-driven customer engagement.

Education

Academic foundation in computer science and engineering

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Texas at San Antonio

Concentration – Software Engineering

2023
Key Achievements
  • Honors: Summa Cum Laude
  • Graduate coursework in Cloud Computing, Enterprise Database Systems, and Machine Learning
  • Capstone project: Designed and deployed scalable ETL pipelines on AWS for real-time analytics
  • Teaching Assistant for DS&A, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Associate of Science in Computer Engineering

Texas A&M University

2021
Foundation & Activities
  • Coursework in Digital Systems, Microprocessors, and Embedded Programming
  • Hands-on lab projects involving circuit design and C programming for embedded systems
  • Active member of the IEEE student chapter and TAMUHack participant
Featured Work

Projects

A showcase of full-stack applications, Data Engineering solutions, and innovative technical implementations

Member Feedback Playback Platform

Secure, web-based audio review platform for MSRs & Supervisors to analyze customer feedback.

Technologies

AWSAPI GatewayReactPythonTerraform

Document Search + RAG Assistant

Retrieval-augmented search for internal docs with answer summarization.

Technologies

PythonElasticsearchLangChainOpenAIDocker

Real-time ETL Dashboard (Capstone)

Streaming ETL that ingests events and displays live metrics and alerts.

Technologies

PythonKafkaKinesisSparkGrafanaTerraform

Tech Stack

Technologies and tools I use to build scalable, efficient, and innovative solutions

Core Programming

Languages and frameworks for application development

Programming Languages

Python
Java
JavaScript
C
C++
C#
Bash

Frontend Technologies

HTML5
CSS
React
Next.js
TailwindCSS

Backend & APIs

Spring Boot
Node.js
Flask
Django
Akamai

Data & Analytics

Platforms and tools for Enterprise-scale Data Processing and Machine Learning

Machine Learning & Data Science

TensorFlow
PyTorch
Keras
Pandas
NumPy

Data Platforms

SQL
DBT
MongoDB
Snowflake
HDFS
OracleDB

Cloud & Infrastructure

DevOps tools and cloud platforms for scalable deployment

DevOps & Infrastructure

AWS
Terraform
Docker
OpenShift
Control-M

Version Control

Git
GitHub
GitLab

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