About

Valentin Dimitrov is a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer with over 8 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently employed at Smule, Inc. where he holds the position of Senior Data Engineer. In this role, he is responsible for developing the ETL process using a range of tech stacks including Python, SQL, MySQL, Snowflake, Kafka, Airflow, and Grafana. Valentin is also responsible for resource monitoring and optimization in Snowflake. Prior to his current role, Valentin worked as a Senior Data Engineer at Experian where he was responsible for developing the ETL process using a range of tech stacks including Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Spark, Scala, Python, SQL, and MicroStrategy. He was also responsible for creating benchmarking reports covering delinquency, early settlement, collection strategies, and risk concentration reports for various financial products such as credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, telco, retail finance, auto finance, payday loans, and current accounts. Valentin provided benchmarking analysis of the demand for credit and exposure, lending terms, portfolio behavior, and collection strategies on the UK credit market. He also performed data validation and quality checking, resolved data issues and investigated them, maintained and updated product databases, developed, stored, manipulated, and queried data using SQL, improved and planned database maintenance processes, and mentored new starters. Valentin holds a Master's degree in Finance, General from the University of National and World Economy, which he completed in 2014, and a Bachelor's degree in Business/Managerial Economics from the same university, which he completed in 2012. He has a wide range of technical skills including Data Engineering, SQL, Snowflake, ETL, Python, Apache Airflow, MySQL, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Apache Hive, and Scala. Valentin is a highly motivated and skilled data engineer with a passion for developing ETL processes and optimizing resource usage. He is a team player who is always willing to mentor new starters and share his knowledge with others. Valentin is dedicated to delivering high-quality work and is always looking for new and innovative ways to improve his skills and knowledge.