Leonardo Trabuco
Principal Engineer at Nubank
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolLeonardo Trabuco is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience who led Nubank’s Data business unit, building a self-service data platform used across the company and founding an Analytics Engineering function that scaled from zero to 100+ embedded engineers. He transitioned from senior leadership into a technical principal role to define and drive Nubank’s data governance strategy, blending product-minded architecture with organizational design. His background spans scientific research and startups—PhD-level biophysics and a stint co-founding Heidelberg Analytics—bringing rigorous analytical thinking to large-scale data systems. Based in Berlin, he pairs hands-on engineering credibility with proven capability in growing teams and operationalizing data at enterprise scale, often translating academic methods into production-safe platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Molecular Sciences, B.Sc., Molecular Sciences at USP - Universidade de São PauloPh.D., Biophysics and Computational Biology, Ph.D., Biophysics and Computational Biology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Portuguese, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
dcos7
apache5
scale5
docker5
pyfilesystem4
python4
container3
kubernetes3
mesos1
rest-api1
hadoop1
api1
rest1
webhdfs1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
duedil-ltd/pyfilesystem
Jul 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
pyfilesystempython
ltrabuco/jenkins-job-builder
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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