Fernando Pombeiro

Teaches at General Assembly

Fernando Pombeiro
Senior Data Engineering Consultant,
CapGemini

Fernando (“Fern”) Pombeiro is a Manager of data engineering. His career started as an officer in the U.S Navy where he completed eighteen and six month tours in Iraq before returning stateside to work as an assistant professor of Naval Science at Penn State University. Following his military career he transitioned to primarily data engineering roles, spending four years with Amazon.com and several years working in the Los Angeles startup scene in Facebook gaming as Data Engineer, Hadoop administrator, and Senior Data Analyst. He currently works for Fandango.com as a manager of BI Engineering here in Santa Monica. Fern spends most of his day coding in Python, Java, Hive, Spark, SQL and Scala. His hobbies include history, baseball, the history of baseball, and politics. He is a fanatic for the Philadelphia Phillies and a lukewarm fan of the Philadelphia Eagles. He currently resides in Santa Monica with his wife and two dogs.