Miguel A. Lobato

Staff Data & AI Platform

miguellobato.com


Summary

Enabling Scalable, Modern Data & AI Platforms in a Hybrid, Data Mesh-Oriented Environment

Cloud

Data

AI & ML

Platform as a Service

Governance

Leadership

Communication

Problem-Solving

Work Experience

New Work SE

Staff Data & AI Platform Engineer

Sep 2022 - Present

• Maintained legacy stack (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka), ensuring stability and SLA compliance

• Led migration to modern platform: Snowflake, DBT, Astronomer, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Crossplane

• Built governance framework: data contracts, OpenLineage, catalog, RBAC, DQ testing, observability, policy-as-code

• Promoted data product thinking and implemented CI/CD for data pipelines

• Designed scalable MLOps platform with model training, MLflow tracking, deployment, and monitoring

• Deployed internal GPT-based assistant over company knowledge base

• Built feature store, model registry, and real-time inference infra

• Ensured responsible AI: explainability, fairness audits, traceability

• Facilitated collaboration between data science, ML, and platform teams

Smart Protection

Staff Data & AI Platform Engineer

Apr 2021 - Aug 2022

• Led lake house solution development in a startup using AWS, Spark, Kafka, Python, Delta Lake, and Kubernetes

• Orchestrated workflows with Airflow and managed infrastructure with Terraform

• Implemented monitoring with InfluxDB, CloudWatch, and Grafana

• Built data governance platform

• Embraced fail-fast, agile approach, collaborating with diverse stakeholders to rapidly iterate and deliver

Evacode Studio

Co-founder & CTO

Sep 2007 - Sep 2010

• Co-founded an IT company specializing in business management applications, with responsibilities in software design, development, business development, and management

... full experience at LinkedIn

Education

Executive Master in Business Administration

Universidad de Sevilla

2009 - 2011

International Master in Business Administration

Universidad Pablo de Olavide

2011 - 2012

Computer Software Engineer

Universidad de Sevilla

2002 - 2008

... full education at LinkedIn