<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <id>https://jeanfraga.github.io/</id><title>Jean Fraga</title><subtitle>Jean Fraga is a data engineer in Miami building cloud data platforms on Google Cloud: lakehouses, dbt, Terraform, orchestration and agentic AI.</subtitle> <updated>2026-10-15T17:04:21-04:00</updated> <author> <name>Jean Fraga</name> <uri>https://jeanfraga.github.io/</uri> </author><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://jeanfraga.github.io/feed.xml"/><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en" href="https://jeanfraga.github.io/"/> <generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator> <rights> © 2026 Jean Fraga </rights> <icon>/assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico</icon> <logo>/assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png</logo> <entry><title>My Google Cloud certification journey: Cloud Architect, Generative AI Leader, Data Engineer</title><link href="https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/google-cloud-certification-journey/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="My Google Cloud certification journey: Cloud Architect, Generative AI Leader, Data Engineer" /><published>2026-10-15T08:00:00-04:00</published> <updated>2026-10-15T08:00:00-04:00</updated> <id>https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/google-cloud-certification-journey/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/google-cloud-certification-journey/" /> <author> <name>Jean Fraga</name> </author> <category term="Career" /> <category term="Certifications" /> <summary>How I went from expired AWS certs to three active Google Cloud certifications in 20 months: skill badges as practice, what each exam tests in 2026, and how each one fed my projects.</summary> </entry> <entry><title>What a data engineer learned from MIT xPRO's Architecture and Systems Engineering program</title><link href="https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/mit-xpro-architecture-systems-engineering/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="What a data engineer learned from MIT xPRO&amp;apos;s Architecture and Systems Engineering program" /><published>2026-10-14T12:00:00-04:00</published> <updated>2026-10-14T12:00:00-04:00</updated> <id>https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/mit-xpro-architecture-systems-engineering/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/mit-xpro-architecture-systems-engineering/" /> <author> <name>Jean Fraga</name> </author> <category term="Career" /> <category term="Learning" /> <summary>Four courses in 2026 on system architecture, models, MBSE and tradespace exploration, and how they changed the way I design data platforms.</summary> </entry> <entry><title>Reading Learning Domain-Driven Design as a data engineer</title><link href="https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/reading-learning-domain-driven-design/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Reading Learning Domain-Driven Design as a data engineer" /><published>2026-10-14T09:00:00-04:00</published> <updated>2026-10-14T09:00:00-04:00</updated> <id>https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/reading-learning-domain-driven-design/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/reading-learning-domain-driven-design/" /> <author> <name>Jean Fraga</name> </author> <category term="Career" /> <category term="Reading" /> <summary>Vlad Khononov's Learning Domain-Driven Design is a software architecture book, but its ideas about subdomains, bounded contexts and ubiquitous language changed how I design data platforms.</summary> </entry> <entry><title>Reading Fundamentals of Data Engineering: the lifecycle that organized my thinking</title><link href="https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/reading-fundamentals-of-data-engineering/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Reading Fundamentals of Data Engineering: the lifecycle that organized my thinking" /><published>2026-10-13T09:00:00-04:00</published> <updated>2026-10-13T09:00:00-04:00</updated> <id>https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/reading-fundamentals-of-data-engineering/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/reading-fundamentals-of-data-engineering/" /> <author> <name>Jean Fraga</name> </author> <category term="Career" /> <category term="Reading" /> <summary>What Joe Reis and Matt Housley's Fundamentals of Data Engineering taught me, and where its lifecycle and undercurrents show up in my own platforms.</summary> </entry> <entry><title>Spec-driven development with the BMAD Method: how I plan and build with AI agents</title><link href="https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/bmad-method-spec-driven-development/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Spec-driven development with the BMAD Method: how I plan and build with AI agents" /><published>2026-10-12T09:00:00-04:00</published> <updated>2026-10-12T09:00:00-04:00</updated> <id>https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/bmad-method-spec-driven-development/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://jeanfraga.github.io/posts/bmad-method-spec-driven-development/" /> <author> <name>Jean Fraga</name> </author> <category term="Engineering" /> <category term="AI-Assisted Development" /> <summary>How I use the BMAD Method across two projects, from Copilot chat modes in v6.0 to skills-based Claude Code in v6.13, and what adversarial reviews caught before I wrote code.</summary> </entry> </feed>
