Manuel Balmeo

Data engineer by profession, tinkerer and optimizer by heart. I am focused on building fast, scalable, and user-centric data systems. I am currently specializing in cloud agnostic enterprise data systems and secure architectures.

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Experience

ING Group (via ING Hubs Philippines)

Platform Engineer

Jan 2026 - Present

TerraformAzure SynapseCI/CDAzure Databricks

Senior Data Engineer

Jan 2025 - Dec 2025

Apache SupersetETLAzure SynapseData WarehousingAzure DevOps PipelinesPython

Data Engineer

Jun 2023 - Jan 2025

PySparkPythonApache HiveAmazon S3Azure PipelinesAnsiblepytest

Senior Data Analyst

Jun 2022 - Jun 2023

SQLApache SupersetPowerBIData AnalysisData Governance

GroupM (via iScale Solutions Inc.)

Data Engineer

2021 - 2022

PythonELK StackPostgreSQLSQLAlchemy

Aarki Inc. (via Aarki Inc.)

Data Analyst

2019 - 2022

PythonGoogle SuiteRedshiftClickhouseMatplotlib

Projects

Barangay API

PythonFastAPIrapidfuzz

PAP Analytics

Apache SupersetClickhouseOpenMetadataDocker

Skills

Education

University of the Philippines

2014 - 2019

B.Sc. in Applied Physics

Publications

Density functional theory-based investigation of hydrogen adsorption on zinc oxide (10(-1)0) surface: Revisited

Surface Science (Vol. 703) — 2021

Latest Writings

2023-12-31

DepEd: Masterlist of Schools 2020-2021

Data wrangling notebook for parsing basic education schools data from PDF using tabula-py and pandas. Markdown version of [this Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/bendlikeabamboo/pap-datalab/blob/main/notebooks/deped_basic_ed_institutions.ipynb)

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