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Michel Dorta

@micheldorta

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Senior Data Engineer specializing in event-driven streaming platforms and data reliability.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek Data Engineer roles building reliable, real-time data platforms where I can drive DataOps, observability, and scalable streaming solutions while mentoring teams.

I am a Senior Data Engineer with 9+ years building scalable, customer-facing data platforms focused on event-driven pipelines, streaming analytics, and analytics products. I specialize in Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, dbt, Iceberg and have driven measurable improvements in data freshness, reliability, and observability.

At Plaid I helped evolve the platform into a real-time data intelligence system, redesigning core update workflows with Go, Kafka, and Spark Streaming to reduce latency and improve feature freshness for credit and risk use cases. I have led enterprise real-time transformations handling petabyte-scale processing and high-throughput event ingestion.

I partner cross-functionally with product, platform, and business stakeholders to translate customer needs into scalable data solutions, mentor engineers, and implement DataOps standards, orchestration, and data quality practices that improve pipeline reliability and downstream trust.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

Current

Plaid

Jun 2022 - Present (3 years 8 months)

Led Plaid’s evolution into a real-time data intelligence platform, improving transaction freshness and reducing pipeline latency by ~10% while delivering customer-facing financial data products and mentoring engineers.

Kafka Go DBT Snowflake Databricks Airflow Event Driven Architecture DataOps

Senior Data Engineer

Walmart

Jul 2019 - Jun 2022 (2 years 11 months)

Led enterprise real-time data platform transformation across a triplet cloud model processing ~10PB/day for 10,000 stores, architecting real-time inventory and replenishment systems and reducing signal latency.

Kafka Spark Cassandra BigQuery Databricks Airflow DataOps Streaming

Data Engineer

Root, Inc.

Jun 2016 - Jun 2019 (3 years)

Supported telematics data pipelines using AWS and Ruby on Rails to enable weekly pricing/analytics datasets and built ingestion and validation jobs processing large-scale sensor data for model features.