David Pardo Bernal
Head of Data
Professional Summary
Passionate about bringing value to and empowering organisations through Data. Focused on pragmatic and efficient solutions rather than specific techniques or vendors.
Work Experience
Head of Data
MEDWING GmbH
09/2024 - Present • Berlin, Germany
- Maintained and expanded Data and Sales Ops capabilities with reduced team size
- Reduced infrastructure costs by 50%
- Migrated all Data Pipelines from externally managed SaaS to In-house Airflow DAGs
- Created Data infrastructure and reporting for new SaaS Business model from scratch
- Supported drive to profitability for 3 business units through new reporting and data analyses
- Reported directly to CEO
Team Lead Data
MEDWING GmbH
09/2022 - 10/2024 • Berlin, Germany
- Recruited, trained and mentored new team members
- Created and led a Data Engineering sub-team of 3 people
- Led Performance Marketing analytics to support and optimise decision making for department with up to €900K monthly budget
- Implemented MixPanel integration for Marketing and Product Analytics
- Supported reporting and due diligence for €44M Series C financing round
Education
M.Sc. In Complex Systems Science
University of Warwick and École Polytechnique
08/2014 - 09/2016 • Coventry, UK - Paris, France
M.Sc. In Mathematics
Universidad de los Andes
08/2012 - 06/2014 • Bogotá, Colombia
B.Sc. In Physics
Universidad de los Andes
01/2008 - 06/2012 • Bogotá, Colombia
Skills
Leadership
- Team Building
- Training and Mentorship
- Agile Project Management
Data Engineering
- Data Warehouse Architecture
- ELT Data Pipelines
- Airflow
- AWS for Data products
Analytics
- Python for Data Science
- SQL
- R
- A/B Testing
- ML Algorithms
Languages
- Spanish (Native)
- English (Professional)
- French (Intermediate)
- German (Basic)