Rafael Artiles-carrasco
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at phData
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRafael Artiles-Carrasco is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Dallas with nine years building data and ML solutions across startups and enterprise teams. He blends strong mathematical training (MS in Computational and Applied Mathematics) and education experience with hands-on data engineering, MLOps, and customer-facing roles at Astronomer and phData, where he progressed from instructor and engineer to lead and senior ML engineer. Rafael is an active open-source contributor to Apache Airflow, improving AWS integrations and pipeline reliability—evidence of his focus on production-grade workflow orchestration. Known as an extroverted "math person," he excels at translating complex models into practical systems and mentoring cross-functional teams. He brings a rare mix of classroom pedagogy, production engineering, and solutions architecture that helps organizations adopt robust, observable ML workflows.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Immersive Program Data Science, Data Science Immersive Program Data Science at Galvanize - Austin, 2nd Street DistrictMaster of Education (MEd) 5-12 Mathematics Education, Master of Education (MEd) 5-12 Mathematics Education at University of Notre DameMaster of Science (MS) Computational and Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (MS) Computational and Applied Mathematics at Southern Methodist UniversityBachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at The University of Dallas
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Github Skills (14)
apache-airflow10
aws-glue10
aws10
data-pipeline10
python10
data-pipelines10
data-engineering10
automations9
automation9
etl9
documentation8
testing7
boto6
amazon-s36
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Apr 2022 - Jan 2024
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 11 PRs, 38 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Rafael contributed to the Apache Airflow project by addressing issues, adding features, and improving documentation related to data pipelines and infrastructure. Their work included fixing exceptions in DAG pickling, enhancing documentation for AWS integration with AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, and adding an example of a taskflow API example for sensors. The user also modified tests related to AWS Glue jobs and added a parameter to pass an ARN to GlueJobOperator, highlighting their focus on data pipeline orchestration and Amazon Web Services integrations.
airflowapache-airflowapachepythonscheduler
erdos2n/erdos2n
Oct 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:31 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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