Maria Elena Monzani is a dark matter data wrangler. She manages the data processing pipeline for the Fermi-LAT and the computing and software operations for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment. LZ is an instrument that is superlative in many ways. It consists of 10 tons of liquified xenon gas, maintained at almost atomic purity and stored in a refrigerated titanium cylinder a mile underground in a former gold mine in Lead, South Dakota. The experiment is slated to acquire 5 PB of data over its lifetime (or 5 billion particle interactions). Due to their elusive nature, only a handful of dark matter particles would be discovered in the process. Finding those particles is an extreme "needle in a haystack" challenge, requiring an unprecedented level of analytical prowess and statistical accuracy. In addition to providing the computing infrastructure required to analize such a large dataset, Maria Elena collaborates with computational engineers to develop advanced Machine Learning algorithms, that could sharpen our ability to identify ultra rare anomalies in massive datasets.