Paula Zapata

Senior Data Engineer at Tandem Cloud | ex-LATAM Airlines

Tandem Cloud

Buenos Aires, Argentina · ART (UTC-3)

7+ years experience

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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Overview

I've spent 7 years on data pipelines - first at BBVA México, now at Tandem Cloud. Wrote the Iceberg service that now handles 44 million requests a day. Before that: LATAM Airlines and BBVA México. I host a monthly meetup on data pipelines.

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Skills

PythonSparkdbtIcebergAirflowSQL

Experience

Senior Data Engineer
Jan 2026 - Present
Tandem Cloud · 9 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Replaced 105 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Cut forecast error from 30% to 10% across 1579 SKUs.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Engineer
Mar 2022 - Jan 2026
LATAM Airlines · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
- Cut forecast error from 22% to 12% across 368 SKUs.
Data Engineer
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
BBVA México · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Reduced stock-outs by 23% in the first season.
- Cut forecast error from 29% to 11% across 2618 SKUs.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from forecasting

2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling demand forecasting.

Write-up: demand forecasting in practice

2023

A long-form guide to demand forecasting for people starting out.

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Education

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Ingeniería, Information Technology
2015 - 2019

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