Summary
João Azevedo is a Cloud Data Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms, currently on Google Cloud's consulting team. He has deep hands-on expertise across the Hadoop ecosystem, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, and cloud-native orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker), and is fluent in Scala and Python. João’s background blends applied research in software and hardware security with production-grade DevOps and data engineering—experience that informs his emphasis on secure, automated distributed systems. He progressed through increasingly senior data roles at Feedzai and Vision-Box after early cloud DevOps and security work at Veniam, giving him both startup agility and enterprise-grade delivery. Based in Lisbon, he pairs an MSc-level research mindset with practical tooling and orchestration skills to turn complex streaming and batch requirements into reliable, deployable pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese