Summary
Victor Arriaza is a Data Engineer with a decade of experience designing and shipping production AI and data systems, currently building data platforms at Coinbase. He has a strong track record modernizing ETL and cloud infrastructure—leading teams at Capital One to cut development time by up to 79% and migrate to serverless Glue to reduce costs by 23%. Comfortable across Python, PySpark, SQL, Terraform and Docker, he has moved multi‑TB datasets under tight deadlines, implemented high‑coverage testing, and mentored engineers to boost productivity. His background in physics and early research on radio telescopes and Antarctic instrumentation reveals a long-standing curiosity for space and data-driven measurement. Outside core data work he explores games, blockchain and space projects, bringing breadth of interest to practical engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at University of Delaware
St. Andrews School (High School, Middletown, DE)
Spanish, English