Summary
Douglas Leal is a data engineering senior leader driving cloud-based data platforms for Big Data & Analytics in the financial services space. He currently leads Data Engineering & AI Ops at F1RST Digital Services, architecting core cloud data foundations and optimizing end-to-end pipelines. At Santander, he built a Delta Lake on Databricks and led ETL evolution, while upskilling teams in batch and streaming data workflows. He brings a hands-on background in pySpark, Spark Core, Kafka, Spark Streaming, and data viz tools like Tableau and Qlik Sense, with a track record of data manipulation and migration projects. A Brazilian tech leader based in São Paulo, he holds a pós-graduação in Big Data from FIA, and degrees in systems analysis/development and computer networks from Senac and SENAI. He blends technical depth with leadership, mentoring teams and serving as a technical focal point for data engineering, migration, and visualization initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Pós-graduação Especialização em Análise de Big Data, Pós-graduação Especialização em Análise de Big Data at FIA - Fundação Instituto de Administração
Spanish, Portuguese, English