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Sara

Senior Backend & Data Engineer

Always learning, mostly about data, AI and the systems in between.

About

Hi, I'm Sara.

I'm a senior backend and data engineer. I spent three years building inside a bank, where data has to be right and systems can't go down. My favourite work is shaping data for machine learning.

Now I work remotely and finally have time to build my own things in the open. I love learning and working with AI, from the fundamentals to agents, and I believe it should make people's lives better. Open source and Linux are where I feel at home.

Based in Lima

Experience

  1. –

    Universidad Santo Toribio

    Systems and Computing Engineering

    Bachelor's degree in systems and computing engineering, Chiclayo.

  2. –

    BBVA

    Software Architect / Data Engineer

    Migrated 33M+ customer records from DB2 to Oracle with Spark, and built pipelines handling 9M transactions a day.

  3. –

    BBVA

    Intelligent Process Automation Architect

    Designed business automations with AI agents, and the governance for sensitive data flows.

  4. –

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Diploma in Generative AI

    Generative AI, from the fundamentals to building with LLMs.

  5. –now

    Valere

    Senior AI Backend Engineer

    AI workflows on AWS Bedrock that screen 8,668 US companies per run, and an eval harness that picks models on measured cost and quality.