Albert Cros
Staff Data Engineer
Bilbao, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
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Top SchoolAlbert Cros is a Staff Data Engineer based in Bilbao with 10 years of experience building scalable data platforms and enabling data-driven organizations. He has led large teams and transformations—designing multi-tenant SaaS data products, migrating platforms to modern stacks (DBT, Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform), and growing data teams rapidly while aligning technical work to business outcomes. At Lokalise he architects platform infrastructure and streamlines ingestion and transformations to empower product and analytics teams. A pragmatic engineer with strong backend and DevOps chops, he contributes to notable open-source projects like DataHub (backend, Redshift/Glue integration and CI/CD) and a mature JSON Schema validator, showing both systems and library-level expertise. Colleagues would describe him as mission-driven about democratizing reliable data (and secretly plotting world domination with insights and penguins).
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico superior en gestión de marketing y comercial Marketing, Técnico superior en gestión de marketing y comercial Marketing at EuroaulaUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, Catalan, English
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Github Skills (33)
unit-testing10
docker10
schema-validation10
postgresql10
json-schema10
metadata10
validation10
dockers10
java10
javas10
json-validation10
data-catalog10
json-schema-validator10
hadoop9
data-governance9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
datahub-project/datahub
Feb 2020 - May 2021
The Metadata Platform for your Data and AI Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Albert contributed to multiple aspects of the DataHub project, including feature enhancements related to data catalog description display and person picture integration. They demonstrated proficiency in backend development through database integrations with Redshift and supporting AWS IAM Role configurations for the Glue source. Furthermore, they showcased DevOps skills by addressing Docker-related configurations, ensuring persistent data storage for quickstart environments, and building a CI/CD script.
data-managementdata-discoverydata-stackmodern-data-stackdata-catalog
everit-org/json-schema
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
JSON Schema validator for java, based on the org.json API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Albert focused on enhancing the JSON schema validation process. They implemented and refactored the `SchemaVisitorListener` to handle schema matching events more effectively. The commits demonstrate modifications to the `ValidatingVisitor` and `ConditionalSchemaValidatingVisitor` classes, which involved adding and simplifying event reporting for matched/mismatched schemas. Further, the user worked on the testing suite, creating test cases and adapting the `SchemaVisitorListenerTest` to reflect new event-driven changes.
apischema-validatorvalidationjson-orgjson-schema-validator
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