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Francisco Medina CastroFM

Francisco Medina Castro

Data & AI Solutions Architect and Developer

€700/day
Berlin, DE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Francisco

Technical thought leader who undertakes complex assignments, meets tight deadlines and delivers superior performance. Experienced in complex problems analysis, technical implementation and solution architecture.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Berlin (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Databricks
    Sr. Partner Technical Manager
    August 2023 - Today (2 years and 10 months)
    Achievements and Recognition:
    • MVP EMEA Partnerships Award FY24
    • President’s Club FY25
    • Built and executed FY24 C&SI Partner Territory Plan aligned with GTM and Field Engineering in Central EMEA.
    • Achieved 101% H1 FY24 Partner Attainment and 80% growth Y/Y in Partner Sourced Commits and 89% 1H FY24 Partner Engagement in Total Consumption in Central EMEA.
    • Led and managed Technical Executive relationships with our Partner Ecosystem in EMEA.
    • Developed Center of Excellence (CoE) within our key C&SI Partners including +300 Databricks Tech Champions enrolled in Central EMEA.
    • Mentored and coached Field Engineering and Sales teams in scaling pre-sales and use case delivery through Partners.
    • Co-built C&SI Partner Presales motion in Enterprise / Commercial segment in collaboration with Field and Sales in Central EMEA.
    • Co-led Industry POV sessions with Industry Global Leadership for top Partner Executives.
    • Led our Global Partner Product Advisory Board and dedicated Partner SME Groups in Central EMEA
    • Interviewed mid/senior level architects for the company
  • Databricks
    Partner Technical Manager
    February 2022 - July 2023 (1 year and 5 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    • Lead technical relationship between Databricks and our Partner Ecosystem in Central EMEA
    • Worked with C&SI VP EMEA to execute Partner strategy and GTM motion in Central EMEA
    • Established key Partner Executive relationships
    • Developed Center of Excellence (CoE) within our C&SI Partners
    • Mentored and coached technical architects and leads from Partner Ecosystem
    • Interviewed mid/senior level Solutions Architects for the company
    • Evaluated, qualified and promoted technical solutions into our Bricksbuilder Solutions program
    • Lead joint Account Planning sessions in top accounts with our Partner Ecosystem in the region
    • Internal member of a Data Mesh SME group
  • Zalando
    Data Platform - Senior Data Engineer
    January 2019 - January 2022 (3 years)
    Berlin, Germany
    • Developed federated Data Lake on top of AWS S3
    • Design and implementation of centralized Processing as a Platform, the automation tooling on top of Databricks managed platform
    • Automation of metadata management, schema inference and schema updates on thousands of datasets
    • Data-ops integration code for processing components of Zalando’s Data Platform (Hive, Presto, Databricks)
    • Designing and implementing Observability data project to measure the user usage and audit of Databricks as well as incurred costs. It is built predominantly with AWS Serverless components (AWS Lambda, AWS SQS, Step Functions), Spark on Databricks and Hive/PrestoSQL
    • Designing and building data pipelines that compliant with GDPR requirements and right-to-be-forgotten in Petabytes-scale, covering structured and semi-structured schema
    • Mentoring mid/junior level data engineers across the organization
    • Interviewing for mid-level/Senior Data Engineering positions across the company
    • Proficient on-call 24/7 member for the Data Platform infrastructure
    • Troubleshooting, identifying and solving production related
    issues and bottlenecks in systems

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Education

  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional Generative AI 201
    Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional Generative AI 201
  • BSc and MSc
    University of Granada
    BSc and MSc

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