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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

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Languages
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years of post-secondary education
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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

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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

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