Hello, I’m David
A software engineer and data lover from Puerto Rico currently working at Nave Bank as engineering manager and data lead.
You can find more about me here or reach out at [email protected].
Recent Posts
- Challenges and Benefits of the Analytics Engineer RoleThe Analytics Engineer is a relatively new role that emerged during the “Modern Data Stack” trend of the last 5-10 years. In this article, I discuss some of the learnings, challenges, and benefits that I have experienced while adopting this role in my team.
- Local Dev with Astro CLI and Remote DatabasesWhen working with Astronomer and Airflow for data processing and ETL tasks, it’s common to encounter scenarios where you need to interact with databases hosted within a private subnet in in your cloud provider. In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how to set up local development for Astronomer and Airflow… Read more: Local Dev with Astro CLI and Remote Databases
- Managing Python versions and environments in macOSI have been using Python for a while now, and managing dependencies and versions always has been a pain. macOS still comes with Python2.7, but most dev works have moved to Python3. This time around, I saw myself using Python more and more and decided to stop kicking the can… Read more: Managing Python versions and environments in macOS
- How to easily migrate your Brew packages in macOSRecently I decided to do a clean install on my personal Mac at the same time and start optimizing my dev setup and overall productivity. The first step towards this goal was to automate installing all the packages and apps I use daily. I have been using Homebrew to manage… Read more: How to easily migrate your Brew packages in macOS
- From Software to Data EngineeringI started to work as a data engineer when me and my team were tasked to automate some data sets and reports for the businesses/brands our team was supporting. The challenge was significant: these sites lacked any established data pipelines, relying solely on basic event capture. What was initially a… Read more: From Software to Data Engineering