Alexander Mendoza
Senior Data Engineer - Lead
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Mendoza is a Senior Data Engineer and technical lead with a career centered on turning data into a strategic asset across industries from NOAA to fast-growing retail and betting platforms. He designs and operates high-availability data platforms, data lakes, and warehouses, enabling analytics and data science through robust pipelines, governance, and performance-tuned databases. Comfortable across cloud and on-prem stacks, his toolkit spans Spark, PySpark, Kafka, Postgres, NoSQL stores and AWS, and he brings hands-on experience migrating legacy systems and optimizing SQL at scale. At NOAA he contributed scientific software and package management work (notably on spack/spack) that supports operational forecasting libraries, reflecting a blend of engineering rigor and domain-focused collaboration. With an MS in Database Technologies and a background in biomedical sciences, he couples formal database expertise with an analytical, systems-oriented mindset.
3 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences, General at Colorado State UniversityMaster of Science in Database Technologies, Computer Science, Master of Science in Database Technologies, Computer Science at Regis University
Github Skills (7)
build-tools10
package-management10
cmake9
c-language8
fortran8
cprogramming-language8
python7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:135 reviews, 9 commits, 157 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to updating and maintaining package definitions within the `spack/spack` repository. Their work focused on modifying maintainer lists and updating dependencies for various packages, including those related to NOAA/EMC-maintained libraries. They addressed code style issues, especially regarding line lengths, within the context of package management. Their contributions also involved adding and modifying variants for existing packages.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
AlexanderRichert-NOAA/NCEPLIBS-bacio
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:12 PRs, 43 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
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