Summary
Israel Mendes is a Data Engineer with eight years of experience building end-to-end data platforms and analytics solutions across cloud environments, currently leading data projects at Caylent from São Paulo. He designs and deploys data lakes and warehouses (S3/Lake Formation, Redshift, BigQuery) and production ETLs using Airflow, Glue, Spark and dbt, with infra-as-code via Terraform, CloudFormation and Kubernetes. His background spans leadership and hands-on roles—managing teams, coaching juniors, and translating stakeholder needs into reliable pipelines and self-service analytics. Comfortable in both AWS and GCP, he also brings practical ML-to-production experience with SageMaker and model adjustments. A marketer-turned-engineer with degrees in Advertising/Marketing and Computer Science, he combines business-first insight with technical rigor to turn noisy data into actionable decisions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Advertising, Marketing, Bachelor of Advertising, Marketing at University Presbyterian Mackenzie
Bachelor in Science, Computer Science, Bachelor in Science, Computer Science at University of London
Portuguese, English, Spanish