Felipe Faria is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building data-intensive, production-grade systems across finance, media, healthcare, and startups, currently driving Global Fixed Income engineering at Citadel. He designs and optimizes distributed ETL and real-time pipelines (Databricks, PySpark, Kafka/MSK, Snowflake, AWS serverless) and has delivered multi-platform architectures from Django/OpenID backends to FastAPI microservices and Flutter mobile clients. At Disney he scaled personalization pipelines to tens of thousands of daily records and at Synaptiq he achieved an 8x ETL speedup while migrating complex Spark workloads to Databricks. A committed open-source contributor and top 3% StackOverflow user with 110k+ downloads across projects, he blends a growth mindset with hands-on optimization expertise. Based in New York, he pairs product-focused client collaboration with deep technical craftsmanship, often surfacing nonobvious performance wins through custom tooling and careful data-source integrations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cypress Bay High School
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA at University of Florida
Contributions:6 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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