Eric Ferreira
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEric Ferreira is a senior technology leader and hands-on database engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in AWS, Redshift, big data, and data warehouse architecture. Based in Chicago, he combines technical management with deep operational expertise—authoring and refining SQL utilities and views for Amazon Redshift used to analyze performance, distribution, and schema health. He excels at translating complex data platform needs into scalable, production-ready solutions and has a track record of improving query performance and storage insights through pragmatic tooling. A computer engineering alumnus of Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Eric pairs academic grounding with practical open-source contributions that strengthen real-world Redshift deployments.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Github Skills (6)
performance-tuning10
amazon-redshift10
database-administration10
sql10
data-analysis9
database-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/amazon-redshift-utils
Feb 2015 - Jun 2019
Amazon Redshift Utils contains utilities, scripts and view which are useful in a Redshift environment
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:106 commits, 79 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric's commits primarily involve creating and modifying SQL scripts used for managing and analyzing data within an Amazon Redshift environment. They created scripts for tasks such as identifying top-performing queries, analyzing table information (size, skew, encoding), and generating DDL statements. The user also added and updated views for schema management, data distribution, and transaction monitoring. These changes demonstrate expertise in database administration and performance analysis within a Redshift context.
redshiftamazonutilsamazon-redshiftaws
ericfe/amazon-redshift-monitoring
Dec 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
redshiftamazonamazon-redshiftawsmonitoring
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