Alex TarverdyDATA ENGINEERING
Experience

A foundation in real data systems.

Data engineering and Scala development across banking, financial reporting and enterprise data workflows.

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2025–2026

Talan · Santander engagement

Data Engineer

Financial regulatory reporting with Azure Databricks, Spark and SQL. Work spanning transformations, extraction configurations, data validation, engineering tooling and collaboration with reporting stakeholders.

  • Implemented extraction configurations and ETL stages for reporting workflows.
  • Resolved transformation defects, including duplicated records in snapshot processing.
  • Contributed to CI improvements, documentation, code reviews and knowledge sharing.
2023–2024

blu Bank

Scala Developer / Data Engineer

Banking data ingestion and real-time processing with Scala, Python and Kafka, integrating relational and document databases.

  • Built Kafka consumers for transaction and profile data flowing to PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
  • Worked extensively with Python and Faust for incremental ingestion.
  • Used Apache Airflow for orchestration, with additional PySpark experience.
2019–2023

BRTech

Data Engineer / BI

Data engineering and business intelligence experience forming the foundation of my work with enterprise data systems.

Technical strengths

A practical toolkit.

My core experience is in Scala, Spark, Kafka, SQL and Azure Databricks. Python, Faust and Airflow were a substantial part of my work at blu Bank.

Additional familiarity includes AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Flink and lakehouse technologies. These are not presented as equivalent to my core production experience.

Languages & engineering

ScalaPythonSQLCats EffectAkka / Pekko

Processing & streaming

Apache SparkKafkaDatabricksAirflowFaust

Platforms & storage

AzureDelta LakePostgreSQLOracleMongoDB

Delivery & operations

DockerTestcontainersCI/CDData validationDocumentation
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