Cathy Zdravevski
Solutions Architect at Databricks
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCathy Zdravevski is a Solutions Architect with 11 years of experience translating complex data problems into production-grade ML and data infrastructure across startups and enterprise environments. Based in Denver, she moved from journalism into data science and engineering, bringing a curious, question-first mindset that informs pragmatic system design and stakeholder communication. At Databricks she advanced from Senior Solutions Engineer to Solutions Architect, and previously led cross-functional MLOps and data infrastructure projects at Guild Education that automated onboarding, transformed 300+ JSON schemas, and cut partner onboarding time by half. Her background spans model development, ETL automation, Airflow orchestration, Snowflake/DBT pipelines, and AWS/SageMaker productionization—paired with practical monitoring and incident response experience. Known for creating reusable developer tooling (Python template repo) and clear operational runbooks, she excels at turning research notebooks into reliable, observable services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Journalism and Mass Communications, Master of Science - MS Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Columbia EngineeringBachelor of Arts - BA Financial Journalism, Bachelor of Arts - BA Financial Journalism at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (23)
markdown10
appwrite10
javascript10
dsa-algorithm10
netflix9
jekyll9
silicon8
jekyll-theme8
facebook8
offline-app8
algorithm7
search-engine6
data-infrastructure6
sorting-algorithms5
stat5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cathyq/practice-code-a-day
Feb 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:68 commits, 11 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 years 2 months
cathyq/cathyq.github.io
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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