Summary
André Sionek is a Principal Software Engineer with 10+ years building reliable data platforms and cloud-native infrastructure, currently shaping data platform engineering at Catena Clearing. He specializes in AWS-driven IaC (CDK, Terraform), CI/CD automation, and production-safe microservices, having reduced test/deploy times by up to 85% and rebuilt full serverless stacks from scratch. A hands-on leader and instructor, he’s taught data engineering bootcamps to over a thousand students and drives developer confidence through rigorous testing cultures so teams can refactor fearlessly. His background spans real-time streaming, lakehouse architectures and event-driven ingestion into Snowflake, and he pairs strong Python craft with pragmatic design patterns that standardize APIs across organizations. An entrepreneurial communicator who once co-founded a widely distributed science magazine and gave a TEDx talk, he brings rare breadth across data, product and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Physics - Incomplete, Bachelor's Degree Physics - Incomplete at Universidade Federal do Paraná
Non Degree Visiting Student at Electrical Engineering, Non Degree Visiting Student at Electrical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Portuguese, English