Summary
Balthazar Paixão is a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience building robust ETL pipelines and analytics solutions across healthcare, aviation, geography, and social-data domains. He combines strong Python, SQL and Airflow skills with hands-on experience on all three major clouds and the Elastic Stack to deliver reliable, cost-conscious data platforms. At FIOCRUZ he progressed from data scientist to leading engineering teams and designing time-series models to uncover underreported COVID-19 cases, demonstrating both statistical rigor and production engineering. Balthazar has a track record of translating high-level ETL tools into efficient SQL/Python implementations to cut licensing and infrastructure costs. Now at International Airlines Group he focuses on scalable, quality-driven data engineering for complex datasets, bringing a practical knack for solving cross-domain data relationships with graph algorithms. Based in Rio de Janeiro and holding an MS in Computer Science, he’s passionate about data-driven culture and continuous learning.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Cefet/RJ - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca