I am a proven hands-on leader, coaching and mentoring teams to their highest performance level, using agile and lean approaches, in close collaboration with stakeholders. On top of that, I have more than 25 years of experience in software engineering and software architecture, working in solutions end to end and I have been using data insights to guide projects and shape decisions successfully.

Work Experience

IT Lead ING Jan 2020 - Present

Data Foundation team Amsterdam, Netherlands

● Leading area with 90+ engineers, responsible to provide finance and risk data for business areas;

● Implementation of Datawarehouse hosting Finance and Risk data from all countries where ING operates. First project in the bank using a 100% public cloud solution on Microsoft Azure. The DW uses Azure CosmosDB Cluster for storage, Apache Airflow for orchestration and PowerBI for visualization. Ingestion of data uses a hybrid solution, some use cases with Python+Kafka, others use IBM DataStage. Everything in the project relies on continuous integration and continuous delivery, leveraged by Terraform scripts;

● Implementation of data integration platform for the Finance and Risk domain. First platform in the bank 100% open source based (Python + Docker + Swarm + KeyDB + Kafka + Elastic + Kibana). Platform does not have scheduling; it is an event driven OLRT solution;

● Technical leadership of major initiatives, including architectural and design decisions, choice of platform/vendor/tools and even PR reviews for some deployments;

● Managerial activities including budget control, compliance, audits, tactical & strategic roadmaps, people management (internal and offshore strategies) and career guidance.

IT Lead PagBank 2017 - 2019

Data Science team São Paulo, Brazil

● Leading area with 10 data scientists, responsible to provide data models and data insights for all business areas of the company, in a fast-paced hyper-growth environment. First team in the company using data science and machine learning using data for decision making;

● Coach the team regarding data science, deep learning and machine learning issues (algorithms, programming (R, Python, SQL), business modelling);

● Responsible to determine first clients eligible to open an account in the PagBank, analyzing their cash flow and sales trends; reduced the time to solve disputes in backoffice area by 60% using semantic analysis; at logistics, reduced by 150K BRL/month the cost of sending paper roll to our vendors, by means of logistic regression with L1 regularization; improved the accuracy from our chatbot to 87% implementing word2vec algorithms.

Tech Leader Globant 2015 - 2016

São Paulo, Brazil

● Helped Brazilian companies, leaders in their segments (Totvs, Embraer, Qualicorp), to deliver software projects using agile, data driven insights and best development practices, acting as a consultant.

Development Manager HSBC 2014 - 2015

São Paulo, Brazil

● Redesign of Global Markets Backoffice area for a straight-trough process system without intervention.

Software Architect and Tech Leader Itaú 2014 - 2015

São Paulo, Brazil

● Redesign of Market Risk platform to support Basel II requirements.

Language, Technologies, and Methodologies

● Languages

○ Portuguese - fluent

○ English – fluent

○ Spanish – business proficiency

○ Dutch – limited proficiency

● Technologies

○ Programming: C#, Java, Rust, Python, R, PHP, Javascript, SQL

○ Databases: SQLServer, PostgresQL, MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, KeyDB)

○ Cloud: Azure, AWS, Terraform

● Methodologies

○ Agile

○ Lean

○ Kanban

○ Design Thinking

○ C4

Education and Certifications

● M.Sc. Software Architecture, University of São Paulo (USP). 2018

● Specialization, Risk Management, BM&FBOVESPA Institute 2013

● B.Sc. Physics, University of São Paulo (USP). 2005

● PMI – Agile Certified Practitioner

● Professional Scrum Master

● Azure Fundamentals & Data

Interests

Squash;
Self-hosting;
Comic books, I’ve been reading superheroes since my 7’s.