https://www.davidbartolomei.com/blog/David Bartolomei is a software engineer and founder from Puerto Rico, currently building Monitorea.Hugo -- 0.157.0en© 2026 David BartolomeiSun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davidbartolomei.com/migrating-from-runpod-to-local-whisper-inference/Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davidbartolomei.com/migrating-from-runpod-to-local-whisper-inference/ExperimentHow we moved from RunPod's serverless GPU inference to local Apple Silicon and NVIDIA hardware for Whisper transcription, cutting costs from $500/month to near zero while improving quality.https://www.davidbartolomei.com/launching-monitorea-ai-agents-for-broadcast-media-intelligence/Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davidbartolomei.com/launching-monitorea-ai-agents-for-broadcast-media-intelligence/ProjectFrom a case study analyzing Share of Voice in Puerto Rico's radio to launching a private beta — how we built an AI-powered platform that deploys agents to monitor broadcast discussions 24/7.https://www.davidbartolomei.com/llms-alternatives-for-software-development-in-regulated-industries/Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davidbartolomei.com/llms-alternatives-for-software-development-in-regulated-industries/WritingBy the time you’re reading this, the landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs) has likely evolved further, but one thing remains constant: their usage in software development continues to ramp up, offhttps://www.davidbartolomei.com/case-study-leveraging-machine-learning-for-spoken-media-analysis-share-of-voice-of-puerto-ricos-political-figures-in-2024/Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davidbartolomei.com/case-study-leveraging-machine-learning-for-spoken-media-analysis-share-of-voice-of-puerto-ricos-political-figures-in-2024/Case studyThis is the first in a series of articles where I share my findings exploring Speech-to-Text (STT) ML models to transcribe and analyze spoken content in news media. In this article, I discuss how STThttps://www.davidbartolomei.com/challenges-and-benefits-of-the-analytics-engineer-role/Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davidbartolomei.com/challenges-and-benefits-of-the-analytics-engineer-role/WritingThe Analytics Engineer is a relatively new role that emerged during the “Modern Data Stack” trend of the last 5-10 years. In this article, I discuss some of the learnings, challenges, and benefits thahttps://www.davidbartolomei.com/connecting-to-remote-databases-while-developing-with-astro-cli/Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davidbartolomei.com/connecting-to-remote-databases-while-developing-with-astro-cli/WritingWhen working with Astronomer and Airflow for data processing and ETL tasks, it's common to encounter scenarios where you need to interact with databases hosted within a private subnet in yourhttps://www.davidbartolomei.com/setting-up-python-in-macos/Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davidbartolomei.com/setting-up-python-in-macos/WritingI have been using Python for a while now, and managing dependencies and versions always has been a pain. macOS still comes with Python2.7, but most dev works have moved to Python3. This time around, Ihttps://www.davidbartolomei.com/automatically-install-almost-everything-in-your-mac/Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davidbartolomei.com/automatically-install-almost-everything-in-your-mac/WritingRecently I decided to do a clean install on my personal Mac at the same time and start optimizing my dev setup and overall productivity. The first step towards this goal was to automate installing allhttps://www.davidbartolomei.com/from-software-to-data-engineering/Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davidbartolomei.com/from-software-to-data-engineering/WritingI started to work as a data engineer when me and my team were tasked to automate some data sets and reports for the businesses/brands our team was supporting. The challenge was significant: these site