Summary
Rafael Marin is a data engineering manager with 17 years of experience and a 13+ year focus on building scalable data and analytics platforms across industries including entertainment, retail, logistics, finance and ads. He has led distributed engineering teams at Meta, Twitter, and Amazon, combining hands-on architecture (Redshift, Postgres, Teradata, Spark, Hadoop, Airflow) with roadmap-driven org design and stakeholder alignment. Known for creating measurable SLAs, SOPs and performance metrics, he repeatedly turns ambiguous business problems—pricing, revenue attribution, transportation cost optimization—into auditable data products that drove multi-million dollar savings. Rafael is skilled at hiring, mentoring and promoting diverse talent, and has institutionalized hiring rubrics and career frameworks at scale. He brings deep privacy and compliance experience (GDPR/CCPA) alongside practical cloud expertise in AWS and GCP. A pragmatic systems thinker, he often serves as the SME bridging finance, ML/research and engineering to prioritize high-impact infrastructure investments.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Engineer, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Engineer at Universidad Tecnológica de México
English, Spanish, Japanese