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Marcelo Zapata

Senior Software Engineer | Data Workflows, Automation & Business Intelligence

Summary

Senior software engineer with nearly four years of progressive enterprise experience at Publix, supporting data workflows, reporting, automation, APIs, and quality delivery across complex technology environments. Combines Python, SQL, Azure data tooling, software testing, and AI-assisted workflow design to improve traceability, operational reliability, and decision support.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Publix Super Markets

May 2025 – Aug 2026
  • Led AI-assisted quality and delivery workflows across four development teams inside a Fortune 100 technology organization.
  • Built validation and automation processes across Playwright, Azure DevOps CI/CD, SQL, REST APIs, Kafka, and structured reporting to improve release confidence, traceability, and cross-team visibility.
  • Standardized reusable AI workflow infrastructure for analysts, engineers, managers, and directors, including agents, prompt templates, documentation patterns, review checklists, and delivery routines.
  • Designed onboarding and enablement materials that turned complex enterprise systems, QA standards, and AI-assisted workflows into repeatable practices for technical and nontechnical audiences.

Software Engineer

Publix Super Markets

May 2024 – May 2025
  • Built and modernized enterprise inventory-management APIs and integration services across ordering, item and inventory, invoice, supplier, and warehouse data domains.
  • Supported data lake and enterprise reporting workflows using Python, SQL, Azure Databricks, and data lake tooling, with emphasis on traceability, data quality, and operational reliability.
  • Built Azure DevOps AI workflow tools for resource planning, work-item generation, test-case creation, requirement summaries, standardized documentation, and completion tracking.
  • Supported production troubleshooting, OpenShift deployment workflows, REST integrations, and cross-system debugging across enterprise systems.

Associate Software Engineer

Publix Super Markets

Dec 2022 – May 2024
  • Helped modernize warehouse technology systems supporting large-scale automation equipment, including crane and conveyor-control environments.
  • Supported projects that moved legacy warehouse workflows toward URL-based control systems for crane and conveyor operations.
  • Led engineering for reporting software used in pharmacy operations, supporting pharmaceutical traceability, operational visibility, and compliance-focused workflows.
  • Drove a Playwright automation initiative from concept through adoption after identifying a major manual-testing gap; automated parallel UI coverage across four server-backed test applications, with suites running in approximately five minutes through Azure DevOps.
  • Helped technical and nontechnical teammates adopt AI-assisted tools, workflow packages, documentation patterns, and automation practices.

Technical focus

Python · SQL · C# · TypeScript · REST APIs · Kafka · Azure Databricks · Power Apps · Power Automate · Power BI · Data lake tooling · Playwright · Azure DevOps CI/CD · OpenShift · Structured reporting · AI-assisted workflow design

Selected project

Vela Tennis

Built a custom iOS tennis application for practice tracking and review; currently under App Store review.

Education

Florida State University — Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Business, 2019–2022