Kenji Hiraoka
Senior Data Engineer
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolKenji Hiraoka is a Senior Data Engineer based in São Paulo with over eight years building scalable data platforms and pipelines across fintech and enterprise contexts. He has led ground-up Data Lake projects and migrations (Databricks, Unity Catalog) and driven major performance gains—cutting ingestion runtimes by ~90% through pragmatic adoption of Databricks Auto Loader. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he advocates data contracts and governance to reduce breaking changes while mentoring teams to deliver reliable, documented datasets. His experience spans AWS, GCP, Spark/Databricks, Airflow, and Terraform, and he’s known for turning messy legacy stacks into maintainable, cost-aware platforms. Notably, he combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, often producing reusable frameworks that accelerate onboarding and cross-team collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnólogo Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas, Tecnólogo Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas at Fatec Ribeirão Preto
Github Skills (75)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
deep-learning10
gpu10
orchestration10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
data-integration10
monitor10
data-science10
workflow-engine10
apache10
airflow10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kenjihiraoka/kenjihiraoka.github.io
Jan 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:19 PRs, 36 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 3 months
kenjihiraoka/curso_react_redux
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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