I am a people leader first, as the health and wellness of my team is paramount to success. Growth and learning leads to excellence. Reducing friction leads to efficiency. Failure is allowed and highly encouraged. I believe in blameless root cause analysis and postmortem.My passion is efficient execution and learning through clear communication and information exchange. That could mean complex data modeling fed by multiple data sources, or a simple spreadsheet in Excel. The goal is to obtain, analyze and communicate information effectively. I love communicating and connecting to others, telling a story, and learning something new.I am sensitive to ambiguous statements as I have found that disambiguation tends to be a large challenge with communication, whether it is due to homonyms or awareness of context (or lack thereof!). Vocabulary is important, along with emotion, tone of voice and intent.Emotional Intelligence(EQ) Skills:Team Player, Problem Solver, Listening for what is said, what is not said, and what is implied or intended. Understands when to listen, and when to draw a line in the sand and take over control. Adaptability, Critical Thinker, Time Manager, and People ManagerTools of the trade:Google Cloud Platform: VertexAI, CloudSQL, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Container/Artifact Registry, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, Cloud Build, LoggingData Engineering: Snowflake, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Weaviate, dbt, AirFlow, AirByteProject Management: JIRA, GitLab, GitLab CIProgramming Languages: Python 3.10+, NodeJS, React, C# 8, .NET Core 5, EntityFramework Core, FluentMigrator 3.x, NuGet, Java 13, MavenBusiness Intelligence: Metabase Reporting, OpenMetaDataOther: Docker, Bash, PowerShell, SSH, TCP/IPTechnical Proficiencies:Clean Code, SOLID Design PrinciplesDatabase Normalization, ACID DB design, CAP TheoryPerformant Data Structures and Algorithm Complexity (Big-O Notation)Class Inheritance, Interface Implementation, Dependency Injection, PolymorphismData Extraction, Transformation and LoadingRequirements Gathering and AnalysisData Integrity and GovernanceDatabase Design and Optimization