Alfonso Diaz
Data Engineer
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAlfonso Diaz is a Data Engineer with 14 years of experience and an MSc in Computer Science from IME-USP, specializing in Big Data, cloud architectures, web services and GIS/geocoding. He has built and maintained large-scale data platforms at Semantix and delivered diverse backend systems at UnitedHealth Group using Scala, Java and microservices ecosystems. His background spans academia and industry—contributing to FP7 research projects and Google Summer of Code—bringing a research-driven approach to production engineering. Alfonso combines strong software architecture skills with hands-on development across Java/Spring, Scala, Android and modern orchestration tools like Docker. He frequently integrates new data management technologies into existing landscapes, excelling at bridging legacy systems and modern pipelines. Based in São Paulo, he pairs deep technical breadth with experience incubating startups and evaluating applied research projects, an uncommon mix that helps turn experimental ideas into reliable, scalable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Ingenieria de Sistemas - UNSAUniversity of São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
uls7
bus7
internet5
middleware4
esb4
grid4
health4
sus4
api3
scalability3
qos3
grids3
analytics2
datasets2
geospatial2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SemantixInfinitePossibilities/cloudera-api-poc
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
alfonso777/dbt-startup-analysis
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 32 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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