Luciana Rocha, Senior Data Engineer and Analytics Engineer

Senior Data Engineer & Analytics Engineer

I'm a Senior Data Engineer and Analytics Engineer with 15+ years of experience building and modernizing analytics platforms across financial services, pharma, telecom, insurance, education, and public health.

My background combines enterprise data engineering and BI with modern cloud data platforms and analytics engineering using AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Python, SQL, and cloud-native data workflows.

Projects

Selected Projects

Medicare Part D analytics platform architecture and dashboard preview

Featured · Data & Analytics

Medicare Part D Data Platform

End-to-end CMS healthcare analytics platform spanning Python and AWS ingestion, Snowflake, dbt modeling, and Tableau delivery.

Python · AWS · Snowflake · dbt · Tableau

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COVID-19 AWS data lake architecture and public health analytics preview

Cloud Data Engineering

COVID-19 AWS Data Lake

AWS data-lake pipeline using Airflow, EMR and Spark, S3, and Parquet for orchestrated public-health data processing.

AWS · Airflow · Spark · S3 · Docker

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Combining Data AWS certification practice platform dashboard preview

Cloud SaaS Product

Combining Data AWS SaaS Platform

AWS-based EdTech SaaS product combining authentication, payments, cloud services, and end-to-end product ownership.

AWS · Cognito · DynamoDB · Stripe · Next.js

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Tableau analytics portfolio with KPI dashboards and data visualizations

Analytics & BI

Tableau Analytics Portfolio

Selected analytics and BI work focused on KPI design, dashboards, visualization, and business decision support.

Tableau · Analytics · KPI Design · Dashboards

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Earlier Data Engineering Work

Data Engineering Foundations

Earlier hands-on projects in cloud data warehousing, dimensional modeling, Spark, and data lakes.

Amazon Redshift data warehouse for Sparkify music analytics and dimensional modeling

Data Warehousing & Modeling

Udacity Data Engineering Nanodegree project

Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse

Loads JSON data from S3 into Redshift staging tables, then builds a one-fact, four-dimension star schema for song-play analysis.

AWS · Redshift · S3 · SQL · Star Schema

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Spark data lake on Amazon S3 processing music data into analytics-ready Parquet datasets

Spark & Data Lake

Udacity Data Engineering Nanodegree project

Spark Data Lake on S3

Uses PySpark on Amazon EMR to transform S3 source data into partitioned Parquet fact and dimension tables for analytics.

PySpark · AWS · EMR · S3 · Parquet

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Earlier AI & Machine Learning Work

Deep Learning & Applied Machine Learning

Earlier hands-on work with sequence modeling, computer vision, and generative neural networks.

TV script generation project using recurrent neural networks to generate dialogue from script data

NLP & Sequence Modeling

Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree project

TV Script Generation with RNNs

Trains a PyTorch LSTM-based recurrent neural network on Seinfeld scripts to learn dialogue sequences and generate new script text.

Python · PyTorch · RNN · LSTM · NLP

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Dog breed classifier project using deep learning and transfer learning for image classification

Computer Vision & Transfer Learning

Udacity Deep Learning / AI Nanodegree project

Dog Breed Classifier

Combines image detection, convolutional networks, and ResNet-50 transfer learning to identify dog breeds from supplied images.

Python · Keras · CNN · Transfer Learning · ResNet-50

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Face generation project using generative adversarial networks to create synthetic face images

Generative Deep Learning

Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree project

Face Generation with GANs

Trains a convolutional PyTorch GAN on CelebA images so its generator learns to produce new synthetic face images.

Python · PyTorch · GAN · CNN · CelebA

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Additional Work

Digital Product & Content

RochaCare digital product showing website, content, social media, and digital brand delivery

Digital Product, Website & Content Delivery

RochaCare

Responsive professional-services website delivered across information architecture, content strategy, SEO foundations, and digital product execution.

Next.js · TypeScript · Responsive Design · Content Strategy

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Professional background

Résumé

Explore my professional experience, technical background, education, and certifications.