Rafael Santa Cruz
Software Engineer, Data Warehouse
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Santa Cruz is a data engineer with 8 years of experience who blends a strong molecular biology and biotech background with modern data stack expertise to build reliable analytics and ETL systems. He has driven data initiatives across healthcare and fintech at companies like GeneDx, Invitae, Genentech, and Amazon, improving pipelines, dashboards, and data quality. Rafael pairs hands-on SQL, Python, Spark, Redshift/Databricks and BI tooling experience with practical engineering practices—introducing code review processes and internal analytics standards that reduced turnaround times. His scientific training enabled him to architect gene curation ETLs and microservices that cut curation time by 80% and delivered measurable cost savings. Based in Los Angeles, he’s actively seeking his next data engineering role where he can bridge domain knowledge and scalable data platforms. A former researcher-turned-engineer, he brings uncommon fluency in both wet-lab data needs and production data systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Biotechnology, Master of Science - MS Biotechnology at University of San FranciscoUniversity of California Santa CruzProfessional Certificate Computer Science, Professional Certificate Computer Science at UC Berkeley Extension
Spanish, English
Github Skills (3)
terraform4
snowflake3
terraform-provider2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rdhaliwal96/GroupCollab
Aug 2018 - May 2024
Contributions:9 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
ralfsantacruz/CA-Weather-Dashboard
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:96 commits, 19 PRs, 66 pushes in 2 months
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