Summary
Jose Perez is a Principal Data Engineer with 12 years of software engineering and leadership experience, currently leading Boingo’s data infrastructure, ingestion, and integrations while also building internal API-driven tools. He has driven complex cloud migrations (AWS to GCP, Snowflake to BigQuery), standardized secret/config management, and modernized pipelines with tools like Airflow and GKE, pairing strong Go and Python skills with hands-on DBA experience across BigQuery, Snowflake, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Previously a full-stack engineer and interim team lead, he built core WiFi platform components impacting millions of users and routinely authors exceptionally clear technical documentation that teams rely on. A mentor and practical communicator, Jose excels at translating technical tradeoffs for product and business stakeholders and prefers end-to-end ownership from design through deployment. An uncommon strength is his ability to reverse-engineer legacy cloud systems to enable seamless migrations while preserving backward compatibility.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish