Summary
Quijano Flores is a Staff Data Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building high-scale data platforms that power product analytics, search/recommendations, and ML workflows. At VSCO he owns full-lifecycle data systems—from event collection through modeling, governance, and serving—driving org-wide improvements in reliability and usability for millions of daily users. He has shipped scalable pipelines, embedding and retrieval systems, and modern analytics stacks (Snowflake, dbt, Looker) while balancing performance and cost tradeoffs. Known for thriving in ambiguous 0→1 environments, Quijano prioritizes the 20% of work that delivers 80% of business impact and brings a product-minded perspective from prior founding and CTO roles. Outside engineering he codes, highlines, and practices meditation, a mix that reflects disciplined focus and creativity in solving complex data problems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Industrial Engineering at University of California, Berkeley