Giancarlo Faranda
Data Architect
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolGiancarlo Faranda is a Data Architect and engineering leader with nine years of experience modernizing mission-critical data platforms and scaling teams across cloud-native environments. He has led successful Google Cloud migrations and implemented data mesh and engineering standards that improved stability, reduced costs, and positioned organizations for strategic exits. At dv01 and the HTTP Archive he transformed monolithic pipelines into automated, BigQuery-optimized systems capable of processing billions of records monthly and slashed runtimes from weeks to days. He champions AI-assisted developer productivity—introducing GitHub Copilot for pair programming and integrating generative AI into spec and documentation workflows. A regular open-source contributor, he focuses on pipeline architecture and optimization, pairing hands-on implementation with talent development and cross-functional leadership. Based in the New York City area, he brings a psychology background to team-building and change management, turning organizational instability into resilient engineering capability.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology at University at Albany
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Github Skills (16)
trend8
google-meet7
menu7
pipeline6
http-archive6
swift5
microsoft-teams5
macos4
gcp4
swiftui4
agenda3
nodejs3
data-pipeline2
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HTTPArchive/data-pipeline
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
The new HTTP Archive data pipeline built entirely on GCP
Contributions:43 reviews, 97 commits, 82 PRs in 11 months
gcpdata-archivepipelinehttp-archivearchive
giancarloaf/advent-of-code
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
https://adventofcode.com/2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 7 branches in 22 days
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