Data Platform Engineering
Oct 2025 — Present
Client Tekever
Role Data Platform Engineer
Location Porto, Portugal / Remote
Industry Defense & Technology
Owns the full data platform lifecycle — design, deployment, and operations — on Kubernetes in GCP, using a cloud-agnostic, open-source toolchain managed entirely as code with a GitOps delivery model. Drives data lakehouse architecture adoption and oversees platform observability and reliability. Mentors engineering teams in building scalable data pipelines, establishing shared patterns and best practices across the organisation.
Google Cloud · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Terraform · Ansible · Apache Iceberg · PySpark · Airflow · Python
Data Engineering
Jan 2023 — Sep 2025
Client Ebury
Role Data Engineer
Location Porto, Portugal / Remote
Industry Finance
Designed, implemented, and maintained various data pipelines, from ingestions (integrating with external tools) up to the data warehouse with model building. Managed and controlled the entire GCP platform, including security, access control, roles management, and the creation and facilitation of internal tools to support data teams.
Python · SQL · Google Cloud · BigQuery · Airflow · dbt · PySpark · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · DuckDB
Data Platform & Team Lead
May 2021 — Feb 2023
Client Lovys
Role Data Lead / Architect / Engineer
Location Porto, Portugal
Industry Insurance & Technology
Acted as Data Architect, Lead, and Engineer simultaneously. Designed and maintained the entire data infrastructure on GCP. Responsible for managing and mentoring the Data Engineering team.
BigQuery · Airflow · dbt · PySpark · Looker · Google Cloud · Python
Real-time Data Pipeline
Apr 2020 — Mar 2021
Client DefinedCrowd Corp.
Role Data Engineer
Location Porto, Portugal
Industry Artificial Intelligence
Built a real-time data pipeline consuming events from Kafka to enable real-time analysis. Worked across ingestion, transformation, and serving layers.
Apache Kafka · Apache Spark · KSQLdb · Apache Druid · Apache Superset · PostgreSQL · Python · SQL
Data Engineering & ETL
Mar 2017 — Apr 2020
Client Farfetch
Role Data Engineer
Location Porto, Portugal
Industry Retail & E-commerce
Worked across multiple projects involving data modelling, ETL architecture and construction, and data analytics at scale. Contributed across the full data stack.
BigQuery · Airflow · Google Cloud · Dataproc · Apache Spark · Looker · Python · SQL · Scala · Bash
Business Intelligence
Jun 2016 — Feb 2017
Client Lookatitude
Role Junior Business Intelligence Developer
Location Porto, Portugal
Industry IT Services & Consulting
Developed BI reports and data integrations using Pentaho tooling. Worked with relational and NoSQL databases.
SQL · MySQL · MSSQL · MongoDB · Pentaho Data Integration · Pentaho Report Designer · JavaScript
Data Mining Research
Nov 2014 — Jul 2015
Client itim
Role Research Intern
Location Porto, Portugal
Industry Research
Academic research internship focused on data mining, applying classification and association rule algorithms to structured datasets.
Oracle · MySQL · RapidMiner