Leonardo Neuwald
Data Engineer
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonardo Neuwald is a data engineer with over a decade of experience designing and running large-scale data pipelines across cloud and on-prem environments. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he earned a Bachelor's in Computer Science from UNESC and pursued graduate studies in Big Data and Data Science at UFRGS. In recent years he has focused on processing high-volume data, building near real-time ingestion and analytics pipelines using Spark, Scala, Delta Lake, Databricks, Azure, and Google Cloud, with streaming technologies like Kafka. His roles at AirDNA and Virtualmind since 2022, along with prior contributions at PicPay, Getnet, Globo, and Neogrid, illustrate a track record of delivering scalable data platforms that handle billions of events daily and replace legacy ETL with modern Spark jobs. He has hands-on experience across the full data lifecycle—from ingestion and storage to analytics and governance—familiar with tools like HDFS, Parquet, Delta Lake, Kafka, Airflow, and Azure Key Vault. A practical builder who bridges data engineering and software development, he thrives turning complex requirements into robust, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Ciência da Computação, Bachelor's degree, Ciência da Computação at Universidade do Extremo Sul CatarinenseGraduate Studies, Big Data & Data Science, Graduate Studies, Big Data & Data Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Github Skills (58)
google-bigquery10
monitor10
python10
machine-learning10
scheduler10
automation10
data-science9
apache9
data-engineering9
data-pipelines9
workflow-engine9
airflow9
mlops9
etl9
data-integration9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
leoneuwald/delta
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
An open-source storage layer that brings scalable, ACID transactions to Apache Spark™ and big data workloads.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
scalableworkloadsapachebig-dataspark
NeoGridBR/databricks-scala-api
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
A simple scala wrapper library for databricks API
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 days
apidatabricksscala-wrapperwrapper-librarydatabricks-api
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