The AI Data Modeling Tax: Working On Human Readiness Before AI Readiness

About Our Contributing ExpertAlejandro Aboy | Senior Data & AI Engineer, WriterAlejandro is a Senior Data & AI Engineer and the voice behind The Pipe & The Line, a technical newsletter where pipelines meet product thinking. With a career that began in marketing and web analytics, he transitioned into modern data engineering, bringing with him a sharp instinct for business context, experimentation, and stakeholder alignment.At Workpath, Alejandro serves as the main owner of the Data Platform & AI stack. He builds AI agents with RAG architectures (Pgvector on Aurora), designs MCP-based tool ecosystems, and implements production-grade AI observability. His work spans dbt modelling, orchestration with Airflow, Slack-to-Tableau automation, and secure backend design for agentic systems.