About me

I am Wendy Navarrete, Software Engineer with expertise in Data Science technologies, graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. I was born in Mexico City and currently living in the Capital of Silicon Valley.

My previous job, at Walmart Labs gave me the experience to extract, analyze, transform, and visualize huge amounts of data.

Nowadays I am working on projects that contribute to increase my knowledge and experience of Python coding, Machine Learning algorithms, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization and SQL querying.

I am also a good-news searcher, a fervent reader, an open-minded traveler, and author of pioneeringwomen.org a website to recollect in one place the achievements of women who have started a new journey throughout history.

What do I know?

Technical Skills:

  • Programming & Scripting: Python, R, SQL, Scala, Unix Shell, JavaScript, HTML
  • Modeling Frameworks: Scikit-Learn, Basics of TensorFlow
  • Big Data Technologies: Hadoop Ecosystem (HIVE, HDFS, Sqoop and HUE Portal)
  • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Hana
  • Visualization Tools: Tableau, Power BI
  • Miscellaneous: Linux/Unix, GIT, Google Cloud Platform, OneOps Cloud and A/B Testing

Interpersonal Skills:

  • Problem Solving
  • Customer Service
  • Effective Communication
  • Curiosity for Discovery
  • Understanding the Business
  • Critical Thinking
  • Intellectual curiosity

Certificates and courses I’ve completed:

Check out my portfolio to see the Jupyter notebooks on GitHub of some of the projects that I’ve developed.

If you would like to know more about me or if you would like to contact me, please feel free to connect on LinkedIn or send me an email to navarrete.wen@gmail.com.