Alejandro Silva
Data & Machine Learning Platform Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlejandro Silva is a Data & Machine Learning Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience building and modernizing data platforms, currently based in New York. He has led large-scale migrations—moving orchestration from Airflow to Databricks, transforming ETL from DBT on ECS to Databricks DLT, and consolidating AWS accounts and Redshift clusters via Terraform—while coordinating cross-team efforts across time zones. Comfortable across the stack, he combines deep Python, SQL, Airflow, Databricks, and AWS expertise with hands-on infrastructure-as-code and data quality tooling. Formerly a lead data engineer at WorkMarket/ADP, he pairs pragmatic performance optimizations and metadata-driven governance with a knack for simplifying legacy systems. Trained as a composer and active musician, he brings creative problem-solving and fluency in Spanish to technical leadership and collaborative projects.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Walter Payton College PrepB.A. Music Composition Jazz Studies, B.A. Music Composition Jazz Studies at Columbia UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (60)
monitor10
python10
data-science10
data-modeling10
machine-learning10
apache10
scheduler10
automation10
transform10
orchestration10
data-engineering9
analytics9
data-pipelines9
workflow-engine9
nyc9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ags2121/dotinfo
Oct 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 3 months
ags2121/public-radio-services
Dec 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 82 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 1 month
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