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Carlos Ávila

@carlosvila

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Gen AI and Data Engineer building reliable pipelines, AI agents, and automated reporting that cut manual work fast.

Mexico

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What I'm looking for

I want to lead GenAI + data engineering work—owning architecture, automating reporting/workflows, and building evaluated AI agents (RAG) that improve reliability, speed, and cross-team execution.

I’m a Gen AI Engineer / Data Engineer focused on turning messy data into dependable workflows—and then using LLMs to automate real business outputs. I lead delivery and architecture decisions across analytics and backend data projects, optimizing for consistency, maintainability, and fast onboarding.

In my current role, I’ve standardized data pipeline practices and built end-to-end solutions that centralize reporting (including ROI normalization into HubSpot) and automate recurring “PIR” creation. I also streamlined presentation delivery using a toolchain that combines ChartJS, Jinja, Selenium, and OpenCV, reducing manual reporting time from hours to minutes.

Across backend and data engineering roles, I’ve designed ingestion and processing systems such as Kafka consumers streaming into Neptune DB and export pipelines to Amazon S3. I’ve also improved performance and reliability through load testing (Locust), query/report optimization, and careful service ownership across microservices.

My approach blends strong engineering fundamentals with practical AI implementation—building RAG workflows and evaluated text-generation agents using LangChain/LangSmith and production APIs. I’m happiest when I can own architecture, automate operations, and deliver measurable impact across teams.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

GenAI & Data Engineer

Current

GoldenBlacklLLama

Apr 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Owned delivery and architecture for CSM data search and reporting across two analytics workflows. Built standardized data pipelines, centralized ROI reporting in HubSpot (reducing manual updates ~70%), and automated PIR generation in Sheets/Slides while cutting manual presentation setup effort through end-to-end tooling and scrapers.

Data Pipelines HubSpot Metabase Selenium OpenCV RAG

Data Engineer & Backend Dev

GoldenBlacklLLama

Jul 2024 - Apr 2025 (9 months)

Engineered backend and data pipelines to centralize content metadata and improve downstream consistency and integration. Built Neptune-to-Amazon S3 JSONL exports, Kafka ingestion into Neptune, Locust load-testing, and knowledge-graph ontology expansion to improve coverage and entity linkage.

Neptune Amazon S3 Kafka Locust Knowledge Graphs Ontology Design Data Pipelines Python Git Github

Data Engineer & Backend Dev

AlphaPoint

Jan 2022 - Feb 2024 (2 years 1 month)

Generated and automated fraud-detection and activity-overview reports for Chivo Wallet (4.6M+ users). Built dashboards and monitoring pipelines using New Relic, Grafana, Python, Pandas, CSVs, and SendGrid, and supported high-volume reporting via MySQL and SFTP integrations.

Fraud Detection Python Pandas MySQL New Relic Grafana Tableau SFTP Sendgrid Jira

Data Engineer & Backend Dev

Rever

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year)

Designed and operated an Elasticsearch + Kafka-backed data lake and reporting microservices to accelerate access to operational data. Refactored the Reports Service early, added English/Spanish/Portuguese support, and reduced the Insights report load time to one-third of the prior duration.

Elasticsearch Kafka Data Lake Microservices Multilingual Support Python Backend Engineering Data Pipelines Agile Delivery

Backend Python Developer

GoExpedi

Apr 2020 - Dec 2020 (8 months)

Built Django models, APIs, and backend modules supporting core platform functionality. Implemented dynamic Django forms and marketing banners, updated Jinja templates, and fixed bugs to accelerate feature delivery.

Django Python REST APIs Backend Development Debugging Web Development Code Refactoring

Backend Python Developer

ContractRoom

Nov 2018 - Apr 2020 (1 year 5 months)

Remodeled the reporting process by adding an Elasticsearch preprocessing stage and persisting preprocessed outputs to MongoDB. Developed configurable Django and Sanic APIs (JWT, Swagger) for preprocessing-api and agreement-express-api using JSON configuration via an API endpoint.

Elasticsearch MongoDB JWT Swagger Django Sanic API Development JSON API

Big Data Backend Python Dev

Luxoft

Jan 2018 - Sep 2018 (8 months)

Collaborated on the HomeAway/Expedia MarketMaker project focused on backend data engineering. Built Sanic APIs, Kafka producers/consumers, and Spark jobs feeding a Booking Probability Model, and supported data migrations and monitoring via Datadog and CloudWatch.

Sanic Kafka Apache Spark Python Bookings Modeling Data Engineering Datadog Cloudwatch Data Migration

Data Engineer / Backend Developer

ByPrice

Aug 2017 - Nov 2017 (3 months)

Worked with the CTO and data scientist to build data extraction and backend services for a startup. Developed scrapers for price/product/store information, created Flask APIs backed by Postgres, and set up monitoring using Datadog and CloudWatch.