João Vasques
Senior Data Engineer
Lisbon, Lisbon, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Vasques is a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience building event-driven, stream-first data platforms and analytics systems, currently helping map Web3 data at Chainlink Labs from Madrid. He has led and rebuilt data organizations at Unbabel—shifting teams from legacy ETL to Kafka-based event sourcing, launching a data lake, and designing a self‑service analytics platform—while alternating between hands-on IC work and engineering management. Comfortable across Go, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes and cloud data tooling, he has deep experience designing APIs for text assets, negotiating BI vendor selection, and documenting DAGs to tame technical debt. A former startup founder and early employee at high-growth companies, João combines product-minded engineering with a knack for operationalizing data at scale and hiring bar-raising talent. An understated strength: he repeatedly moves teams from prototypes to production-grade streaming architectures, preferring fewer meetings and more time solving technical problems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Primary School, Ensino Primario, Primary School, Ensino Primario at Escola Primaria BeiralSecondary School, 3º Ciclo e Ensino Secundário, Secondary School, 3º Ciclo e Ensino Secundário at Externato Marista de LisboaBSc, Network Engineering, 14/20, BSc, Network Engineering, 14/20 at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (44)
scala9
dotty9
sbt8
kafka-connector8
scala-native8
messaging7
reactive7
akka7
java7
compiler7
reactive-streams6
akka-streams6
alpakka6
kafka6
enterprise-integration6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jvvasques/talkpocket
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 22 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 days
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