Jacobo Blanco
Engineering Team Lead at Paidy
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolJacobo Blanco is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years of experience building production-grade data platforms and teams, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering. He scaled Paidy’s data science engineering function from a solo role to a high-performing team, driving migrations from PostgreSQL to Spark, adopting Delta tables and Prefect, and introducing OpenMetadata to solve real operational pain points. Jacobo pairs deep analytical roots—a PhD in particle physics and hands-on experience at CERN—with a bias for practical architectural choices that prioritize observability, concurrency, and developer productivity. He’s equally focused on people and process, having designed hiring pipelines, coding standards, data quality policies, and cross-BU prioritization workflows. Known for mentoring engineers to explain complex data problems to non-technical stakeholders, he avoids trendy solutions in favor of fixes that measurably reduce friction. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he brings a rare blend of scientific rigor and product-minded engineering leadership to fast-moving analytics and AI organizations.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
IB Diploma, Physical Sciences, 33, IB Diploma, Physical Sciences, 33 at Sotogrande International SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Elementary Particle Physics, Completed, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Elementary Particle Physics, Completed at Royal Holloway, University of London
English, Spanish, Hebrew, Japanese
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Github Skills (79)
omnifocus10
dataflow10
python10
python-client10
automation10
infrastructure10
prefect10
r10
pipeline10
data-visualization10
observability10
eda10
data-quality10
data-visualisation10
exploratory-data-analysis10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bkkkk/TnPCalibration
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
bkkkk/gdqData
Jul 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:25 pushes, 3 branches, 3 issues in 3 years 6 months
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