Bibiana Mollinedo Rivadeneira

Lisbon, PT • brivadeneira@protonmail.com • linkedin.com/in/brivadeneira • github.com/brivadeneira • hackmd.io/@brivadeneira

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Senior Backend & Geospatial Data Engineer

6+ years of experience and a Telecom Engineering degree. Skilled in Python, REST APIs, CI/CD, and cloud geospatial pipelines (Zarr, Parquet) handling space-based climate data. Seeking remote, impact-driven roles.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mitiga Solutions

Barcelona, Spain

Senior Backend & GIS Data Engineer (IC Level 3)

Jun 2024 — Present
Climate risk intelligence mid-size company, 5-member engineering team.
  • Led the refactor and optimization of +3 backend microservices to handle +10 different climate data signals in zarr v2/3 and parquet, using FastAPI.
  • Led stress and load tests using custom Locust for geocoding. Found and fixed more than 15 bottlenecks, making the system much faster and resilient under high load.
  • Standardized deployments workflows using Helm and GitHub Actions, spreading best practices and cutting developer setup time by 80%.
  • Redesigned a legacy pluvial flooding prediction pipeline using Azure Blob, Argo Workflows, and geospatial formats (GeoJSON, Zarr, Parquet); reduced query time by 60% with DuckDB filtering on H3-indexed Zarr datasets.

    • Spire

    Harwell Campus, England, UK

    Ground Processing Data Engineer

    Nov 2023 — May 2024
    Satellite space-based data global company, 4-member hyperspectral microwaves team.
  • Designed ground data processing architecture for handling terabytes/day from 5+ sources in near-real time with PySpark, AWS, Databricks, and Grafana.
  • Introduce an user friendly interface for remote control of satellite prototype (via SCPI and CAN Bus), for operational monitoring and validation using a raspberry pi, jupyter notebooks.
  • Automated quality assessment for 10+ hyperspectral lab instruments, boosting signal accuracy and reducing the 100% of manual validation efforts.
  • Developed monitoring dashboards to proactively detect anomalies, improving data reliability and operational efficiency.

    • ShipHero

    New York, US

    Backend Software Engineer

    Apr 2022 — Oct 2023
    E-commerce, warehouse management services platform, 5-member engineering team
  • Maintained and improved code for 30+ carrier integrations using Python, Flask, GraphQL, and AWS.
  • Led migration and integration of the Amazon Merchant API, processing 1,000+ products/month.
  • Implemented Locust stress tests to handle over 1M pre-order transactions, ensuring system stability.

    • Properati from OLX

    Buenos Aires, AR

    Backend Software Engineer

    Apr 2021 — Apr 2022
    LATAM real estate start-up, 8-member sellers side features team
  • Partnered the transition from a legacy monolithic system to a distributed microservices architecture serving 4M+ users, using Golang, Ruby, Bash, and Python.
  • Developed a recommender system with Gorse, boosting precision by 0.4.
  • Scaled the Python geo-core API to handle 4M+ location records with faster response times.

    • Welo TV

    Córdoba, AR

    Backend Developer and Telco consultant

    Dec 2020 — Apr 2021
    RTMP and HTTP multimedia streaming on-demand start-up 7-member company
  • Refactored 4+ projects focused on modernization using Python, FastAPI, jwplatform, Elasticsearch, GCloud, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Researched networking protocols and provided implementation recommendations.

    • AG Projects

    Amsterdam, NLD

    Python RTC Developer

    Dec 2019 — Dec 2020
    Real-time communication Open source systems and public domain packages 3-member company
  • Survived the migration of +5 Twisted projects from Python/Cython 2 to 3 using a modern stack.
  • Happily launched the development of an async Mobile push notifications RTC server from scratch to deb package creation, leveraging fastAPI and compatible with over +20 RTC standards.

    • SKILLS

    Python (advanced) • Bash (intermediate) • Golang (basic) • Ruby (basic) • SQL • PySpark (basic) • Jupyter Notebooks • Pandas • Pytest • Unittest • FastAPI • Flask • GraphQL (basic) • Locust • Git • Docker • Kubernetes • AWS • Azure Blob Storage • GitHub Actions (CI/CD) • Helm • Argo Workflows • GIS data engineering • COG, Zarr, Parquet, STAC, GeoJSON, xarray • DuckDB • ETL • Databricks (basic) • Mapbox • TCP/IP • HTTP/HTTPS • DNS and Load Balancing • VPN and SSH
    Agile & Scrum • Remote-first & async workflows • TDD

    EDUCATION

    UNRC

    Río Cuarto, Córdoba, AR

    Telecommunications Engineering

    Graduation year: 2019

    UNJu

    San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, AR

    IT Technician

    Graduation year: 2012

    LANGUAGES

  • English: B2, upper intermediate

  • Spanish: native

    • PROJECTS & OPEN-SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS

    2026
    Cloud-native tool to track wildfire risks in South America using Python, EOPF toolkit, pystac client and Zarr, Sentinel-2, geopandas, rasterio, folium.

    2026
    Custom locust-based python test suite for dynamic API testing with geo-faker parameter generation. Using Python, locust, geopandas, shapely.

    2023
    Cheap bus trip data scraping, graph-like db storage, and Telegram alerting. Using python, asyncio, geopy, pydantic, neo4j.

    2019
    Interactive simulation of optical waves in jupyter for Ed using numpy, scipy for signals, matplotlib, ipywidgets.

    RECOGNITION

  • 2017 - by NASA Space Apps

  • 2011 & 2012 - by INET

    • ASSOCIATIONS & SOCIAL IMPACT

    2019

    Volunteer

    Local free software festival misc organizer tasks

    2017

    Organizer

    First girls in IT event in the local community organizer and instructor

    2016 - 2017

    Volunteer

    Local speakers coaching

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