Summary
Atila Paes is a Data Engineer with nine years of experience building data ingestion, transformation, and serving pipelines—primarily on Google Cloud Platform—to enable analytics and machine learning at scale. Currently at SkipTheDishes, he focuses on data warehousing, orchestration, and SQL-driven pipelines, turning raw sources into reliable, production-ready datasets. His background includes a Ph.D. in Geoscience and postdoctoral work in seismology, where he improved event detection true positives by 73% and dramatically reduced location uncertainty, reflecting a strong foundation in rigorous data processing and QA. Comfortable bridging research and production, he also brings systems administration experience and a track record of introducing process improvements and automation in lab and engineering environments.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering & Metrology and Instrumentation, GPA: 3.11, Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering & Metrology and Instrumentation, GPA: 3.11 at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Postgraduate, Petroleum Engineering, Postgraduate, Petroleum Engineering at Instituto Brasileiro de Petróleo, Gás e Biocombustíveis
Ph.D. in Geoscience, Keywords: Geophysics, Hydraulic fracturing, Unconventional, Microseismic Monitoring & Data Analysis, Ph.D. in Geoscience, Keywords: Geophysics, Hydraulic fracturing, Unconventional, Microseismic Monitoring & Data Analysis at University of Calgary
University of São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Spanish