As my company undergoes layoffs, I’m back on the job hunt. While I’m in the field of data, I often find myself missing the hands-on experience that comes from personal projects. I realized that I’m not practicing all the skills I need. During a recent interview, I was asked about my experience with sending reports via email—something I hadn’t done in a few years. That got me thinking: could I turn this into a pet project? Read more

Exploring databricks SQL usage At my company, we adopted databricks SQL for most of our users. Some users have developed applications that use the JDBC connector, some users have built their dashboards, and some users write plain ad-hoc queries. We wanted to know what they queried, so we tried to use Unity Catalog’s insights, but it wasn’t enough for our case. We work with IOT and we are interested in what filters they apply within our tables. Read more

Hace poco más de un mes cambié de trabajo y me encontré además con un cambio de stack considerable. Ahora estoy trabajando con aws + github + python. Y bueno, al margen de los cambios de conceptos y demás, me ha llevado bastante encontrar un flujo de trabajo que no me pareciera “frágil”. Lo primero y que me ha decepcionado bastante es que github no incluye soporte para hostear paquetes de python. Lo tendrá sí, pero sin fecha clara y por lo pronto parece que será despues de Junio de 2021. Read more