Gabriel Contreras Escalona
AI & Machine Learning Services Support Lead
Tampa,FL
Summary
Driven administrator lead with 3 years of experience in the Big Data and Containerized Platform industry. Motivated to learn, grow, and excel in the Software Engineering field and tackle thought-provoking challenges.
Overview
2
2
Languages
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
AI & Machine Learning Services Support Lead
Citi
Tampa, FL
01.2021 - Current
- Managed administrative activities for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI&ML) software including Arcadia, Anaconda, DataRobot, Dataiku, H2O Driverless AI, and RStudio.
- Deployed and administered containerized (Docker) clusters using HCP Ezmeral platform to host AI&ML and Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH) software.
- Drove calls with software vendors and internal engineering teams to troubleshoot, analyze, and fix production level outages.
- Led team to effectively build and maintain clusters on a planned schedule for entire software development life cycle (Development, User Acceptance Testing, Production, and Continuity of Business).
- Developed bash scripts to expedite repetitive processes when troubleshooting on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7 hosts.
- Patched software and installed new versions to eliminate security problems and protect data.
- Broke down and evaluated user problems using test scripts, personal expertise, and probing questions.
Hadoop & BlueData Administrator
Citi
Tampa, FL
10.2018 - 12.2020
- Built and deployed HCP Ezmeral (then named BlueData) environments for upstarting physical to virtual host migration project.
- Created and tested proof of concept containerized (Docker) clusters with pilot deployments of Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH) and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning tools such as Spark, Hive, DataRobot, and Anaconda.
- Analyzed and troubleshooted slow and failing Spark jobs running on CDH 5 and 6 clusters.
- Managed backup disaster and recovery (BDR) jobs for over 10 CDH production clusters to equivalent back up (continuity of business) clusters.
Automation Software Intern
Citi
Tampa, FL
06.2017 - 08.2017
- Developed automation script using Automation Anywhere platform for end-to-end bot onboarding.
- Wrote C# code to create WPF UI for automation script and tie automation functionality to internal chat bot.
- Contributed to and implemented the technical tasks as part of a Scrum team using Agile methodology.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 08.2014 - 07.2018
Skills
Java
Bash
Agile
Docker
Git
Python
SQL
C/C
HTML/CSS
C#
Ruby
Javascript
CUDA
Timeline
AI & Machine Learning Services Support Lead
Citi
01.2021 - Current
Hadoop & BlueData Administrator
Citi
10.2018 - 12.2020
Automation Software Intern
Citi
06.2017 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of South Florida
08.2014 - 07.2018