
{"id":6,"date":"2020-02-24T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.giovannaguevara.net\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-11-15T06:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:18:35","slug":"index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.giovannaguevara.net\/","title":{"rendered":"about me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6\" class=\"elementor elementor-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6d186fe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6d186fe\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4dfe50c\" data-id=\"4dfe50c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7f46c10 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7f46c10\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/1888510151\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.giovannaguevara.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cropped-New-Composition.jpg?fit=768%2C460&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-22\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.giovannaguevara.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cropped-New-Composition.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.giovannaguevara.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cropped-New-Composition.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.giovannaguevara.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cropped-New-Composition.jpg?resize=1024%2C614&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.giovannaguevara.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cropped-New-Composition.jpg?resize=768%2C460&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.giovannaguevara.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cropped-New-Composition.jpg?resize=1536%2C921&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">At the Capitol bright and early for the Sacramento Century Ride supporting Children's Home. <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-d6e2a54 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d6e2a54\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-15bc4c9\" data-id=\"15bc4c9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b46dab5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b46dab5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I&#8217;m Giovanna: <span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">I am a life-long scientist, engineer (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bpelsg.ca.gov\/applicants\/eit_lsitapp.shtml\">CA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.giovannaguevara.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GuevaraEIT.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EIT<\/a>), trained data scientist (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.giovannaguevara.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Guevara_DataScience_GA.pdf\">General Assembly Data Science Immersive course graduate [May 2022]<\/a><\/span>), current EWMBA student at <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu\/u-s-news-ranks-the-haas-ewmba-program-1-again\/\">#1 Ranked Berkeley Haas<\/a> (Class of 2028), and working as a <em>data engineering consultant <\/em>supporting health agencies visualize health trends in our communities. I&#8217;m a certified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowflake.com\/en\/\">Snowflake<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/achieve.snowflake.com\/721c5cdc-d644-481d-a7ee-af2692ed47b4#acc.kn51oKNf\">SnowPro<\/a>, and I&#8217;m excited to build and deploy GenAI solutions to streamline workflows and information retrieval. I&#8217;ve been coding since mid-2000&#8217;s, and working with data for over 10 years. In my very limited spare time, I design and sew my own clothes, and I love biking. I previously worked as a scientist, studying<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">\u00a0how humans interact with their environment and authored <a href=\"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/api\/citations\/20190002682\/downloads\/20190002682.pdf\">technical reports <\/a>on findings for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ames\"> NASA Ames<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hsi.arc.nasa.gov\">HSI\/HCI<\/a> community. As a researcher in human factors, I&#8217;ve designed experiments, collected data and completed statistical analyses. 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