Summary
Luis Coca is a Senior Software Engineer and data scientist with six years of experience blending industrial engineering rigor with machine learning and cloud-native data engineering. Based in Portland, he has built and productionized pipelines and tooling across Databricks, Airflow, AWS, Kubernetes and Spark, and has a track record of turning slow ETL processes into sub-hour APIs and workflows. He combines statistical foundations (BS in Industrial Engineering, minor in Statistics, Data Science certificate) with hands-on skills in Python, SQL, FastAPI/Docker, and geospatial ML to deliver measurable business impact such as a 91% pipe-failure model and improved SLA-driven data quality tools. An experienced educator and mentor, he’s tutored and guided hundreds of bootcamp students while maintaining hands-on contributions to ingestion, model deployment and data integrity across adtech and infrastructure teams. Notably, he moves fluidly between deep-data work and product-facing integrations, making complex ML solutions operational and accessible.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial Engineering at Kansas State University
Spanish, English, Italian