Summary
Carlos Zapata Conforto is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering with 11 years of experience and a master’s in AI, currently driving data architecture and platform modernization at Autodesk from Spain. He designs and implements large-scale AWS-based batch and streaming systems, co-authoring PySpark utilities and SDLC standards that serve multi-TB/PB workloads and multiple platform teams. Previously at Rappi he helped build an ETA microservice operating at thousands of requests per minute that slashed global mapping costs, and he has deep experience in Spark, Kafka, Presto/Hive, Snowflake and Databricks. Comfortable working across multicultural teams in EU/Schengen and Venezuela, he blends rigorous academic training and teaching experience with pragmatic production delivery and measurable cost/resource optimizations. Notably, he pairs data-driven decision enablement with software craftsmanship, contributing reusable tooling and benchmarks that guided successive generations of the data platform.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, Computer Graphics & Software Engineering, B.Sc., Computer Science, Computer Graphics & Software Engineering at Universidad Central de Venezuela
Universidad de los Andes
Spanish, English