Summary
Lucas Cristiano is a seasoned Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building and securing large-scale data platforms, currently leading Data Engineering initiatives at iFood in São Paulo. He combines deep hands-on expertise in data lake architecture, Apache Spark, Databricks, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS cost and governance controls with practical experience implementing Amundsen, Privacera, and LGPD-compliant access policies. His background spans early Oracle/PLSQL development to designing modern Delta Table pipelines and CI/CD integrations, reflecting a rare full-lifecycle perspective from ingestion to observability with Grafana and Kafka. Lucas also has an academic grounding in computer engineering and a taste for systems thinking evidenced by contributions to geospatial open-source work (GeoSpark/Apache Sedona) during his career.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering at Universidade São Francisco
Spanish, English, Portuguese