About
Josue Garcia.
I keep databases fast, replicated and recoverable, and I'm growing that into data engineering. I learn by running the real thing: this site, its database and the pipelines behind it all live on a server in my home, wired together with the same tools teams use in production.
The path
Now
Database administration
MySQL replication with automatic failover, ProxySQL routing, CDC into Postgres, monitoring and alerting. Run on my own server, documented as I go.
Next
Python and Airflow
Scheduled pipelines that land raw data, transform it and check its quality before anyone queries it.
Then
Kafka and dbt
Streaming changes instead of nightly batches, and transformations as tested, versioned SQL.
Later
Snowflake and Databricks
The same ideas on managed cloud platforms, with a certification to show for it.
Home lab stack
- MySQL 8.4
- PostgreSQL
- ProxySQL
- Orchestrator
- Debezium
- Kafka
- Airflow
- MinIO
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Docker
- Tailscale
Get in touch
Open to database administration and data engineering roles.