# Augusto de la Torre > Complex systems wrangling | xSpotify Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/augustodelatorre I have 20 years of experience working with data, big and small and everything in-between. Though I spent the first 10 years working primarily with SQL, in the subsequent 10 years I have become comfortable with Python, C#, Java, and Scala; I have built data products on top of specialized data appliances, written map reduce jobs to process hundreds of billions of events, managed fleets of NoSQL instances and clusters of microservices, hacked together numerous tiny solutions to unblock the business, and designed domain specific languages to allow subject matter experts to interact directly with the systems they care about. I have spent the bulk of my career designing, building, and maintaining mission-critical data products for high complexity domains, from systems that measure medical quality of care in real time for the largest free electronic health record system, to the royalty calculation infrastructure for the world's largest audio streaming platform. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Weights & Biases Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Helping to build best in class tools for machine learning engineers and tinkerers ### Staff Engineer, Domain Architect (Royalties) @ Spotify Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Stockholm, Sweden * Capturing, organizing, distilling, and re-expressing tribal knowledge to help the product area navigate our complex domain * Identifying opportunities to align and enable the larger financial engineering organization through platformization and other joint development opportunities ### Senior Data Engineer @ Spotify Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Stockholm, Sweden * Leveling up the product area through knowledge workshops, domain modeling exercises, and peer mentorship * Running Spotify-scale data experiments to challenge core assumptions * Spinning up new teams and coordinating with leads across the organization to ensure rapid, high quality, solution delivery as Spotify expands into new verticals ### Data Engineer @ Spotify Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Stockholm, Sweden * Designing domain specific languages to translate legal contracts into interactive calculation playgrounds * Designing and building data pipelines to process hundreds of billions of business events across dozens of sources * Building high performance calculation infrastructure to accurately allocate billions of dollars in royalties to millions of creators. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Practice Fusion Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Designing, prototyping, and productionizing domain-specific languages for hybrid batch and real time data processing pipelines, for structured analysis of electronic health record data. Tending to the evolution of the microservices for capturing the clinical events that feed our data products. ### Data Engineer @ LiveFyre Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Operating, troubleshooting, and maintaining the high-throughput transactional databases backing a large-scale realtime chat platform, including MongoDB and MySQL fleet management, performance tuning, and observability. ### Data Engineer @ IMS Health Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 Implementing and operating MS-SQL-Server-as-application systems for execution of HEDIS clinical quality of care measures against billions of health insurance claims records. Implementing one click builds, continuous testing, and modern source control. ### Database Architect @ Lexicon Marketing, LLC Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Los Angeles, California, United States Designing and implementing direct marketing campaign data infrastructure, while continuing to maintain databases and integration for sales systems. ### Data Consultant @ Lexicon Marketing, LLC Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | Los Angeles, California, United States Untangling the relationship between business needs and data, maintaining the data layer at a catalog sales company where all prices are negotiable. Administering databases and maintaining application interfaces. ### Data Analyst @ Cingular Wireless Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 Writing ETL jobs (in Perl) to find inconsistent user account data (resulting from the telecom's recent transition to Service Oriented Architecture). Preparing, presenting, and executing proposals for data clean-up; documenting the scale of impact, providing supporting evidence, assessing the urgency of the problem. ### Data Entry @ Various Companies Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 | Seattle, Washington, United States Gaining an understanding of the value of data, and how it varies across domains. From a dental office equipment supplier, to mergers and acquisitions intelligence agency, to telecom user support. ### Survey Cold Calling @ Venture Data Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 | Eugene, Oregon, United States Talking to people who didn't know they wanted to talk to me. ## Education ### B.S. in Computer Science University of Oregon ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/datadesigner - Website: https://www.visualcv.com/datanerd --- Source: https://flows.cv/augustodelatorre JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/augustodelatorre/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01