Biography

My name is Sergio Sánchez Zavala and I’m originally from Tijuana, Baja California, México. I’m dedicated to making research transparent and reproducible. I’m a public policy wonk + data and tech nerd. I like making accessible and reproducible open-sourced tools and resources 🤓

I’m also:

🌮📊 the creator of @tacosdedatos - tacosdedatos.com where I hope to build a place to learn data analysis and data visualization best practices, techniques, and knowledge in Spanish.
🧑🏼‍🔬🎨 and a data engineer at TalkingPoints - a non-profit helping families and schools communicate beyond language barriers

Interests

Data Visualization
Social Tech
Public Policy

Education

B.A. in Economics, 2016

University of California, Davis
B.A. in International Relations, 2016

University of California, Davis

Experience

April 2022 - Present

Remote

Data Engineer

TalkingPoints

April 2021 - March 2022

Oakland, CA

Data Engineer

Alluma

As a data engineer at Alluma I get to help shape data practice + drive data-informed culture. I also:

Collaborate with leaders of functional areas to identify opportunities to operate more efficiently and effectively and to use data to spark change.
Lead the adoption of modern data models and architecture for the organization's applications and operations.
Lead the planning and development of a data catalog to serve the organization's data users
Lots of Snowflake + Airflow stuff

March 2020 - April 2021

Oakland, CA

Data Visualization Analyst

Alluma

As a data visualization analyst in a new team at Alluma I get to help shape data practice + drive data-informed culture. I also:

Develop ETL jobs + tests to process, validate, transport, colalte, aggregate, and distribute data.
Design and build dashboards and self-service tools in Tableau + Metabase for internal teams and client facing solutions.
Conduct training's on data concepts + specific tools.

February 2019 - Present

Latinoamérica

Founder

tacosdedatos

As the creator/founder of tacosdedatos my responsibilities vary but three main ones are:

Research, write and publish content as well as reach out to potential content creators.
Create marketing materials for our content and push them on to the right channels
Maintain the website t acosdedatos.com/