Paola Calderon
Product Engineer at astronomerio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaola Calderon is a product engineer and startup co-founder with 8 years of experience building enterprise-grade data tooling, best known for co-founding Astronomer and shaping Astro around Apache Airflow. She led early customer success and later product and growth functions, owning roadmaps, documentation, and education to help data teams run Airflow at scale. Paola has hands-on experience shipping AI-powered sales tooling that earned industry recognition, and she translated customer-facing insights into scalable product features. Based in San Francisco, she is currently expanding her strategic toolkit at Stanford GSB after a trajectory that spans product, growth, and operations. Fluent in turning operational pain points into productized solutions, she blends startup grit with structured business training. An early entrepreneur with international study and nonprofit internship roots, she brings a global perspective to building developer-facing enterprise products.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science, International Politics, French Minor, Bachelor of Science, International Politics, French Minor at Georgetown UniversityBachelor’s Degree, International Relations and Affairs, Bachelor’s Degree, International Relations and Affairs at Sciences Po Lyon
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (50)
apache-airflow10
kubernetes10
docker10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
charts10
machine-learning10
workflow-engine10
apache10
scheduler10
etl10
automation10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
astronomer/docs
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
Astronomer Documentation
Contributions:658 reviews, 157 PRs, 450 pushes in 1 year 5 months
astronomer
paolaperaza/vfastronauts
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
A hands-on guide to learning Git.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 6 months
handshands-onlearning-git
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