The Water Institute

Congratulations to Christian Ariza-Porras and Lorena Peñuela Cantor on becoming Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professionals!

Christian and Lorena recently attended the Data + AI Conference in San Francisco, where they took and passed Databricks’ highest-level certification exam for data engineers.

This advanced certification validates the ability to design, build, optimize, secure and operate production-grade data engineering solutions at enterprise scale, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, streaming, performance optimization, observability, governance, CI/CD and production troubleshooting.

Together, Christian and Lorena bring deep expertise in data management, big data, software development, GIS, spatial data and complex data visualization to The Water Institute’s work.

For The Water Institute, this achievement reinforces the technical expertise behind the data infrastructure that supports research, modeling, and decision-making. Christian and Lorena’s skills help ensure our data platforms are reliable, scalable, reproducible, secure and capable of handling large and complex datasets.

Please join us in congratulating Christian and Lorena on this achievement!