Summary
Andrea B is a Senior Data Engineer and distributed systems architect with over twenty years of experience designing and delivering large-scale, cloud-native data platforms and highly reliable enterprise systems. Currently at NVIDIA, she focuses on building scalable, high-performance data services that enable complex analytics and stable production processing. Her background at IBM includes hands-on work on core enterprise software, DB2 runtime on z/OS, Java EE frameworks, and leading Hadoop-as-a-Service initiatives that blended Ambari, Kerberos, Chef, and Docker. Andrea excels at pragmatic architectural tradeoffs, balancing performance, reliability, and long-term evolution to align technology with business growth. She combines low-level systems experience (PL/I, DB2) with modern big data tooling and automation—an uncommon mix that helps bridge legacy enterprise needs and cloud-first data architectures.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University