GCGabriela Caldasinbyte-sizedjourneys.hashnode.dev·5h ago · 3 min readdbt Contracts as a CI Gate: Catching Schema Drift Before It Hits Production What happened A downstream dashboard breaks. Nobody touched the dashboard. Somewhere upstream, a column was added, dropped, or had its data type changed, and that change flowed straight through to pro00
GCGabriela Caldasinbyte-sizedjourneys.hashnode.dev·Jun 24 · 7 min readSnowflake Cost Optimization: A Practical Playbook for Data EngineersYou inherited a Snowflake environment or built one from scratch and at some point someone asked you: "Are we spending too much on this?" If you're a solo data engineer or a small team running a produc00
GCGabriela Caldasinbyte-sizedjourneys.hashnode.dev·Jun 9 · 6 min readWhat It's Actually Like Being a Solo Data Engineer at a Healthcare StartupLet me set the scene. It's a Tuesday morning. You've got a client launch coming up, the nightly pipeline ran, and one model didn't land the way it should have — some edge case buried in the transform 00
GCGabriela Caldasinbyte-sizedjourneys.hashnode.dev·May 27 · 7 min readWhat I Learned Migrating MySQL to Snowflake (The Hard Parts Nobody Talks About)We had a problem that many data teams know too well: nightly stored procedures that were supposed to run quietly in the background were instead failing, running too long, or leaving downstream process00
GCGabriela Caldasinbyte-sizedjourneys.hashnode.dev·May 10, 2025 · 2 min readSetting up your LinkedIn profileLinkedIn is a powerful tool for job seekers, especially if you're transitioning from a data analyst or database administrator role or aiming to advance to a senior position. Recruiters often use LinkedIn to find candidates, as many companies hire rec...00
