Nadya Pena
Data Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNadya Pena is a data engineer with 11 years of experience building production data pipelines and predictive models, currently applying her skills at the NBA. She blends a Computer Science foundation with hands-on expertise in Hadoop, Spark, Python, C#, and JavaScript to turn messy, imperfect data and infrastructure into reliable analytics. Her background in equity derivatives and trading systems taught her to optimize performance and reduce latency—once cutting a 15-minute wait to ~2 seconds through concurrency and caching improvements. Known for strong communication with stakeholders and a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving, she pairs statistical rigor with creative data modeling. Outside of work she balances engineering with diverse interests—woodworking, learning Japanese, and even homesteading projects—reflecting a pragmatic, maker mindset.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Memorial High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The College of New Jersey
English, Spanish, Japanese
Stackoverflow
33reputation
6kreached
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5questions
Github Skills (19)
placement7
logistic-regression6
parsing6
impala6
scikit-learn6
odbc6
machine-learning6
python6
pyodbc6
dataframe6
pandas6
javascript5
sorting-algorithms3
algorithms3
ruby3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nadyac/Crunchy-Filler-Classifier
Mar 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:42 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
nadyac/nadyac.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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