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Professional Journey

A timeline of roles, companies, and the projects that shaped my path.

Data Architect

Nov 2024 → Present

Tekever ↗ · Portugal · 100% Remote · Direct Employee

Designing and evolving the company's Kubernetes-based Data Platform (deployed via Helm). Cloud-agnostic stack with Apache Kafka, Spark Operator (Kubeflow), Traefik, Keycloak, WireGuard, Airflow + NiFi, Neo4j, Apache Druid, ArgoCD, Rancher and MLflow.

Sector: Surveillance-as-a-Service.

Big Data Architect

Oct 2022 → Oct 2024

Ultra Tendency ↗ · Germany · 100% Remote · Direct Employee

Technical leadership across projects for Drei Österreich (Telecom · Austria), European Central Bank (Banking · Germany), Cerascreen (Health · Germany) and internal MLOps initiative. Cloud provider evaluation, KPI definition, lift-and-shift Cloudera → AWS/Azure/GCP.

Chief Architect

Feb 2018 → Sep 2022

NTT Data ↗ · Multi-country · Hybrid · Direct Employee

Chief Architect on international projects: TT Club/Thomas Miller (UK · Insurance), Santander Portugal & UK (Banking), Itaú (Brazil · Banking), Enel (Chile & Brazil · Energy), Banco de Bogotá (Colombia · Banking), GPA Pão de Açúcar (Brazil · Retail) and Telefónica Vivo (Brazil · Telecom). On-prem → cloud migrations, target architectures, leading engineering teams.

Big Data Developer / Data Engineer

Sep 2017 → Feb 2018

Sodexo ↗ · Brazil · On-site · Contractor

SPI DataRoadMap project (Employee Benefits & Rewards). Hadoop cluster PoC, on-prem → AWS Data Lake migration, Hive/Impala ingestion, Pig + Spark pipelines, IT team training.

Big Data Developer / Data Engineer

Aug 2016 → Aug 2017

IBM ↗ · Brazil · On-site · Direct Employee

Santander Brazil (Banking). Lambda architecture for real-time geolocation recommendations. REST endpoints with Apache Camel. Stack: Cloudera CDH, Java, Pig, Spark/PySpark, HBase, Hive, Impala.

Business Intelligence Developer

Dec 2013 → Aug 2016

EAI Brasil · Brazil · On-site · Contractor

Projects for América Móvil (Telecom · Brazil) and GRU Airport (São Paulo International Airport). DW dimensions and foundations, Tableau / OBIEE / QlikView dashboards, PHP applications (Symfony/Laravel), SAP integration via Web Services.

Senior Software Engineer & Team Leader

May 2011 → Nov 2013

Telefónica | Vivo · Brazil · On-site · Contractor

SMS-driven interactive systems (Point Program, PTT, Cinemark Promo). Java 1.6, Struts, JSP, Hibernate, EJB 3.0, Spring, Oracle 9i, JBoss, Weblogic. Technical leadership, scope/time/risk management.