INDIANAPOLIS · INCOSE ASEP

Liberato Garced-Torres

Automation & Data Integration EngineerIndianapolis, Indiana

I build and maintain the quiet infrastructure that moves enterprise data around — pipelines on Azure, custom automations, and the integrations that keep systems honest. Currently with Simon Property Group, studying Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins, and serving as Vice-President of the INCOSE Chicagoland chapter.

Indianapolis, IN39.768° N · 86.158° WMMXXVI

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What I'm working on this season.

BuildingAzure Data Factory and Cosmos DB pipelines for 70+ tenants at Simon Property Group.
ExploringMicrosoft Fabric — migrating legacy reports, notebook-based transformations, workspace governance.
StudyingM.S. Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins. Working through Software System Engineering this term.
ServingINCOSE Chicagoland as Vice-President, after a year as the chapter's webmaster.
Off-screenCamera, bike, camp. Last trips: South Korea, China, Granada.

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A decade of keeping systems running — from HVAC plants to cloud pipelines.

2023PresentIndianapolis, IN
Data Management Specialist · Simon Property Group
Onboarding and data integration for 70+ tenants. I own the pipelines, the automations that validate them, and the documentation that keeps our systems legible.
StackMicrosoft Fabric (Lakehouses · PySpark Notebooks · Reports) · Cosmos DB · Azure Search Service · Other Azure resources · Azure OpenAI integration · AI product development
20222022Remote
Data Engineer · Opendoor
SQL and data integration work supporting enterprise application workflows.
20212022Irvine, CA
Building Engineer · California Commercial
Building management systems and facility maintenance across a dozen medical facilities.
20132021Culver City, CA
Building Engineer · Nordstrom
Eight years on the maintenance and reliability team for a flagship facility.

Education

M.S. Systems EngineeringExpected 2026
Johns Hopkins University
System Conceptual Design · System Design & Integration · Software System Engineering · Management of System Projects.
B.S. Cybersecurity2024
Purdue University Global
GPA 3.94. Vice-President of the Entrepreneurship Club. Omicron Sigma Sigma National Honor Society.
Web Development Certificate (MERN)2022
UC Irvine — Division of Continuing Education
Managed the final capstone project.
Operation & Maintenance Engineering: Steam Plant2021
Los Angeles Trade-Technical College

Credentials & service

INCOSE ASEP — Associate Systems Engineering Professional
Networking with Microsoft Technologies (uCertify, 2024)
INCOSE Chicagoland Chapter — Vice-President (2026–)
INCOSE Chicagoland Chapter — Webmaster (2024–2025)
ACM Member · IEEE Member · PMI Member

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Selected work. Small pieces, carefully chosen.

nasa-data-visualizer.vercel.app
Personal project
NASA Data Visualizer
An interactive web tool that taps NASA's open data APIs and renders the results as visualizations you can actually poke at — built to make publicly available space data feel less like a CSV dump and more like something to explore.
- Next.js
- React
- NASA Open APIs
- Data visualization
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agtlandscaping.com
Client work
AGT Landscaping
Marketing site for AGT Landscaping — service overview, gallery, and contact — designed to make a small business legible to the people picking up the phone for an estimate.
- Next.js
- Web design
- Vercel
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/writing

Notes on systems, data, and the work of making them fit together.

Medium
Seeing the Whole Elephant: Why Systems Thinking Matters More Than Ever
On the parable of the blind men and the elephant — and why isolated expertise misses the shape of the thing it is trying to describe. A case for the systems view in a moment that keeps rewarding specialization.
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LinkedIn
Rethinking Public Transit: How Santa Maria's Pioneering Approach Is Changing the Game
What a small California city's bus system gets right that larger networks miss — and what it suggests about designing public services people actually use.
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LinkedIn
The Importance of Context & Connections: What AI Can't Replace
Models are good at tasks. They are still not good at reading the room. On the parts of professional work that current automation keeps missing — and why that gap matters.
Read on LinkedIn