Rui Castro

Rui Castro

Data Platform Engineer • Homelab Enthusiast

Porto, Portugal

About

Passionate Data Engineer with a proven track record across multiple industries — from e-commerce and fintech to insurance and defense. I specialise in building scalable data platforms and pipelines on Google Cloud, with deep expertise in Apache Spark, Airflow, dbt, and BigQuery. I care about ownership, data quality, and building systems that actually get used.

Skills

Data Engineering

Python SQL PySpark Apache Kafka Airflow dbt Looker

Cloud & Storage

Google Cloud Platform BigQuery Dataproc Looker PostgreSQL

Infrastructure

Docker Kubernetes Terraform Linux Bash