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I'm a tech-savvy Technical Author with over a decade of experience as an engineer in the IT industry. I enjoy crafting technical and training materials for internal and external audiences, including fellow engineers. I draw on my Computer Science expertise and client-oriented nature to turn complex topics into easy-to-understand content. As a Data Engineer, I have 5+ years of experience in developing data intensive applications, addressing challenging architectural and scalability problems in diverse industry sectors and companies, early-stage startups to large corporations. My favorite technologies and areas of expertise are: - Programming languages: Python and Spark. - AWS Infrastructure: Redshift, S3, EMR, Lambda, Glue, Athena, Cloudwatch. - Infra as Code: Terraform. - Monitoring and observability: Datadog. - ETL orchestration: Luigi and Airflow. - ELT tools: Airbyte - Transformation tools: dbt Having worked in 3 countries so far, I feel very comfortable in international professional environments and thrive when working in diverse teams, I believe it increases creativity and productivity. I also make it a personal commitment to embody values such as inclusivity, respect, appreciation and recognition in my workplaces. I also believe it is critical for engineering teams to follow best-practices, for instance, writing high quality technical documentation, RFC documents and conducting postmortems, as well as code testing and code reviews. I have plenty to learn in these areas, but I make an effort to improve every day. If you’d like to get in touch, please, feel free to reach out!