Summary
Simón Cascante is a Staff Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable data platforms and leading teams across companies from startups to enterprises. He has designed and operated end-to-end data warehouses and pipelines using technologies like Redshift, Snowflake, Spark, Hive, Glue, and Talend, and launched customer-facing BI products such as Entrata BI with Snowflake Data Shares. A hands-on manager and mentor, he grew a data engineering team while emphasizing clear communication, transparency, and professional development. His background includes architecting ETL for machine learning at SMASH and maintaining high-throughput subscription pipelines at Hulu, showing a blend of analytics, ML readiness, and production reliability. Based in Eagle Mountain, Utah, Simón pairs technical depth with a teacher’s mindset—he’s taught database courses and regularly invests in coaching engineers to accelerate impact.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration Degree Management, Business Administration Degree Management at Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Bachelor of Business Informatics Information Technology, Bachelor of Business Informatics Information Technology at Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
Spanish, English