Summary
Ada Draginda is a Senior Data Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building production-grade data platforms and ML infrastructure for consumer and commerce products. She has led technical teams and owned critical systems—designing Airflow infrastructure, GDPR/PII redaction tooling, CI/CD for data science, and BI platform administration—at companies including Netflix, Notion, and Stitch Fix. Ada excels at turning research into reliable pipelines and automations that reduce tech debt and accelerate model deployment, with hands-on history implementing data-driven financial planning and operational metrics. A machine-learning enjoyer by inclination, she pairs scientific curiosity from an earlier physics and astronomy background with pragmatic engineering to ship auditable, scalable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics and Astronomy, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics and Astronomy at University of Victoria
English, French