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Contact Information
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* Email: suarzac@gmail.com
* LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/suarzac
* GitHub: github.com/suarzac

Summary
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I am a data professional with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and professional certification in
full-stack development. Personally, I enjoy the unique problem solving nature of building
efficient data pipelines and modeling complex business problems with available sources.
Designing end-to-end data solutions while working alongside stakeholders allows me to
maintain pipelines that enable organizations to make informed decisions based on accurate,
up-to-date data.

**Experience**
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**Data Engineer 2** - Precoa (2025 - Present)
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* Data Engineer on the primary data team responsible for building and maintaining data pipelines and infrastructure to support the company's data needs.
* Coordinate with relevant teams (e.g. Analytics & Reporting, Strategy, Data) to align data solutions with broader business objectives.
* Apply data warehouse modeling frameworks (e.g., Data Vault) or equivalent methodologies to meet organizational requirements.

**Data Engineer** - BICP serving Nike Inc. (2023 - 2025)
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* Designed and implemented data models and architecture to optimize storage, retrieval, and processing speed in DataBricks on AWS across various source systems (snowflake, teradata, oracle, etc..).
* Collaborated with cross-functional business functions to identify and address data quality issues, ensuring accuracy and consistency of reports and analytics across BI databases while consolidating towards Unity Catalog.
* Lead developer on global product application, saving sports marketing representatives time and improving accuracy in business teams purchase orders for major sports teams.
* Maintain Airflow tooling (tableau data source credential rotation, external file transfers..)

**Spark Python Developer** - KForce serving HP Inc. (2021 - 2023)
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* Utilized DataBricks to build scalable solutions for data cleansing, transformation, and enrichment tasks of source data for our ML teams.
* Conducted performance tuning and optimization of Spark applications to improve processing speed and resource utilization.
* Built Looker dashboards to monitor data quality and privacy objects of the data products we produced
* Migrated core Airflow pipelines to Databricks workflows.

Education
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**Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science: Neuroscience** - George Fox University (2020)
**Developer Training: Full-Stack Development** - BrightRace Institute (2020)

Skills
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* **Technical:** Git, Python, SQL, Spark, Airflow, AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Data Modeling/Architecture
* **Software:** Jira, Confluence, Tableau, Splunk
* **Languages:** English (Native)