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Gerardo Orellana

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Gerardo Orellana

@gerardoorellana

Staff Data Engineer driving scalable platforms and team growth with Snowflake, dbt, and cloud innovation across global organizations.

Experienced Staff Data Engineer with expertise in Snowflake, dbt, AWS, and cloud data pipelines. Proven leader building scalable platforms, optimizing data workflows, and mentoring teams. Holds a master’s in Data Science, certified in SnowPro Core and machine learning. Passionate about solving complex problems and advancing technology to deliver business value in multicultural environments.

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Staff Data Engineer

Current

Paylocity

Feb 2025 - Present (9 months)

Design and implement organization-wide data engineering components and lead DBT platform execution; lead data pipeline projects from requirements to delivery and mentor team members to raise platform and engineering capabilities.

Event Driven Architecture dbt Snowflake Python AWS CDC Jinja Data Warehouse Architecture Project Management

PA

Senior Data Engineer

Paylocity

Sep 2022 - Feb 2025 (2 years 5 months)

Designed and implemented shared data platform components and ingestion frameworks; developed AWS infrastructure with Pulumi/CDK and optimized core Snowflake components to support company-wide reporting.

Pyspark DBT Snowflake Python Pulumi AWS CDK Airflow Data Lakes Infrastructure as Code Data Lake

BA

Senior R&D Software Engineer

BairesDev

Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year)

Engineered cloud and serverless data ingestion, transformation, and delivery features; optimized SQL-heavy processes and designed REST APIs to normalize and store large datasets in SQL databases.

ETL SQL MySQL Python AWS Serverless Data Processing API Design Performance Tuning

IN

Senior Software Developer

Indurama

Jun 2018 - Aug 2021 (3 years 2 months)

Designed and developed integrations between on-premise and cloud ERP systems via REST APIs and batch processes; built high-availability client apps and pipelines to ingest manufacturing data for downstream use.

Pl SQL REST APIs ETL Oracle Database Python Java Django PL SQL SQL System Integration

UA

Research Assistant

Universidad del Azuay

Oct 2017 - Jun 2018 (8 months)

Researched and evaluated text-similarity and NLP methods, built proof-of-concept pipelines for model inference, and authored academic reports to inform departmental NLP project strategies.

Natural Language Processing Python Jupyter Applied Machine Learning Data Analysis Academic Writing Model Deployment Experimentation

IN

Software Developer

Indurama

Oct 2014 - Aug 2015 (10 months)

Led a multidisciplinary team to develop marketing and data-acquisition software using Oracle APEX and PL/SQL; redesigned legacy solutions and delivered new products tailored to business needs.

Pl SQL Apex Oracle Database APEX PL SQL SQL Software Development Team Leadership Oracle Reports Problem Solving

ES

Software Engineer

Embotelladora Azuaya S.A.

Jan 2013 - Oct 2014 (1 year 9 months)

Maintained and extended the in-house ERP, developed Oracle Reports and monitored database performance to ensure reliability of operational systems.

Oracle Database Oracle Reports Java ERP Maintenance SQL Database Monitoring Problem Solving

Education

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UA

University of Antwerp

Master of Computer Science, Data Science

2015 - 2017

Completed a Master of Computer Science with a specialization in Data Science from 2015 to 2017.

UA

Universidad del Azuay

Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software and Information Development

2006 - 2012

Completed a Bachelor of Software Engineering focused on Software and Information Development from 2006 to 2012.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

Snowflake

dbt

PostgreSQL

Python

Java

Docker

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Gerardo Orellana

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Open to opportunities

Location

Ecuador

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40k-100k USD

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Data Architect Data Developer

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Python SQL AWS Communication Skills

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