Summary
Gabriel Dos Santos Gonçalves is a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience building and modernizing data platforms, currently leading data engineering efforts at Novi Labs from São Paulo. He has deep hands-on expertise with Snowflake, AWS Lakehouse architectures (S3 + Delta Lake + Glue + Athena), Airflow orchestration, dbt modelling and PySpark, having migrated legacy systems and scaled pipelines for high-throughput environments. Gabriel combines platform engineering with product-minded analytics—delivering customer-facing data products, feature stores, and messaging systems that send hundreds of thousands of daily communications. He also evaluates and mentors senior engineering talent, blending technical assessment with active delivery from his time at Perform and Billtrust. Early in his career he applied bioinformatics rigor to national-scale sequencing pipelines, a background that shaped his emphasis on reproducibility, validation and production-grade automation.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Research Doctorate, Bioinformatics, Research Doctorate, Bioinformatics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD (Unfinished), Genetics and Evolution, PhD (Unfinished), Genetics and Evolution at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
B.Sc, Molecular Biology, B.Sc, Molecular Biology at State University of Rio de Janeiro