Data at Buffer with David Gasquez

Hey, I’m David and I work as a Data Engineer at Buffer. My love for tinkerings with digital stuff started early in my life so when the time to go to University came, I applied to Computer Science (it was either that or Philosophy). 

It wasn’t fun at all initially. I wanted to do something related with robotics but I wasn't even sure what that meant. Then, around the 3rd year, I coursed “metaheuristic” and took my first Machine Learning classes. After that year, I realized that the thing I enjoyed the most was playing with data and algorithms. I became much more interested in the backend/data side of things. 

During my last year, I participated in a Kaggle competition organized by Airbnb with the hopes of learning more about the hyped “Data Science” world. I learnt a huge amount of things and ended up in a great position which gave me some moral boost (also a great thing to put on my CV). 

Meanwhile I was learning more about Buffer and its culture. One day I saw a comment on a HN thread saying they were looking for a Data Analyst. At that time I was working as a backend engineer for a small company in Granada and decided to apply even though the only thing I knew about SQL was that it was used to select data from databases. After a few interviews, I got in as a Data Analyst. ‍

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