André Pires
Staff Software Data Engineer
Alenquer, Portugal
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Top SchoolAndré Pires is a Staff Software Data Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms, currently advancing security ratings pipelines at BitSight. He specializes in distributed systems and big data technologies—Spark, Kafka, Hadoop/EMR, Iceberg and modern Azure/Databricks cloud stacks—building reliable, production-grade pipelines and data mesh integrations. His background spans end-to-end architecture, hands-on development, and mentoring teams for clients across banking, telecom and retail. He combines research experience from INESC-ID and teaching at Instituto Superior Técnico with a pragmatic focus on delivering daily data products at scale (supporting ratings for ~1M companies). Outside work he runs a home lab cluster (Proxmox, K3s, Home Assistant, PiHole) where he experiments with edge/cloud patterns, reflecting a practical curiosity about bringing distributed systems concepts to the home. Practical, system-minded and curious, he thrives at the intersection of research, architecture and operational delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (40)
java-agent9
arduino8
sdk8
ide8
sink8
java8
avro8
azure-cosmos-db8
monitoring7
distributed-tracing7
sql7
azure7
kafka-connector6
kafka6
cosmosdb6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Strabox/caravela
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:202 commits, 3 pushes, 1 issue in 9 months
Strabox/vehicle-manager
Jun 2017 - May 2020
Vehicle Maintenance Manager - used to manage the maintenance of a set of vehicles
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 11 months
vehiclevehiclesmaintenance
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