Summary
Afonso Dos Santos Pereira is a data engineer based in Lisbon with six years of experience designing cloud-native data platforms, ETL pipelines, and client-facing solutions across energy, telecoms, and e-commerce. He has driven measurable impact—most notably cutting a critical pipeline’s runtime from 12 hours to 27 minutes—while working with Databricks, Azure, Python/Spark and CI/CD practices. Comfortable leading technical RFPs and guiding teams, he blends hands-on implementation with architecture and operational stewardship. A founder and maker at heart, he runs a homelab and has built startups and tooling (including an LLM-based QA for legal workflows), which keep his infrastructure and experimentation skills sharp. He favors pragmatic simplicity over clever complexity, rapidly adopting new technologies and applying them where they deliver real business value.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Program, Business, Summer Program, Business at IESE Business School
Game Design and Gamefication, Computer Science, Game Design and Gamefication, Computer Science at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Summer School, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Summer School, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services at AESE Business School
BSc Information Systems, Information Technologies, BSc Information Systems, Information Technologies at NOVA IMS Information Management School
Visiting Student - Remote, Administração e Negócios, Visiting Student - Remote, Administração e Negócios at University of Eastern Finland
Samsung Innovation Campus, Ciência de Dados, Samsung Innovation Campus, Ciência de Dados at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Visiting Student - Erasmus, Economia e Gestão Empresarial, Visiting Student - Erasmus, Economia e Gestão Empresarial at Nicolaus Copernicus University
English, Portuguese, French