Carl Salazar

Founder of revenir, a principal-led consultancy delivering production-grade data platforms with rigorous engineering, clear communication, and complete operational execution.

I lead engagements directly from architecture through implementation, validation, deployment, documentation, and handoff.

www.revenirdata.com

Worked as Senior Data Engineer at IMG Academy.

Developed and Deployed 20+ Custom Data Pipelines
• Created 20+ custom data pipelines - using Python, SQL, dbt, and orchestrated with Airflow - to handle batch loads from external APIs (REST, GraphQL), cloud file storage, and databases to the enterprise data warehouse (Snowflake).

• Setup programmatic alerting and escalation policies (PagerDuty), as well as monitoring (Monte Carlo/DataDog)

Automated Valuation Models (AVM) Development
o Led development on an internal machine learning-based Automated Valuation Model to support appraisers; used Python, Kedro, MLFlow

End-to-End Business Ops Reporting Pipeline
o Built and maintained data pipelines for operational reporting, handling work order and project management data from Monday.com (GraphQL) to BigQuery using Python and dbt. Deploy

• Cloud Solutions Engineering: Wrote/deployed cloud-based (AWS) solutions to meet SaaS client requirements in various project-based contracts
• Reverse ETL Pipeline: Developed a custom, highly-performant async ETL pipeline to extract data from client’s data warehouse and write to Pendo.io
API; Built upon the Singer.io open-source framework (Python).
• Outbound Integrations (Zendesk, ActiveCampaign

• HR Reporting Automation: Automated 40+ manual reporting processes for enterprise Reporting using Python, saving ~$130k/yr in costs.
• Employee GIS Analysis: Conducted GIS analysis to identify employee populations most affected by work transit;
Led to development of Python-based analytic tool leveraging Google Maps API, employee locale data, socioeconomic indicators (census data)
• Causal Analys

• Enterprise Integrations DPO: Led HR IT Workday Integrations team, building new integrations & maintaining 100+ enterprise integrations.

• Digital Experience Design: Worked with DX Design to drive change toward leveraging data, design, & Agile methodology across Enterprise teams.

Focus: Big Data Systems

Graduate Assistant; Awarded/maintained full-tuition scholarship

NCAA Division 1 Student-Athlete (Football, 2012 - 2015)
- Awarded and maintained full athletic scholarship
- C-USA 3rd Team All-Conference (2013), AAC Academic All-Conference (2014), Lou Groza Star of the Week (2013), Lou Groza Watch List (2014)