Summary
Márcio Fontes is a data-focused product owner and trainer with a decade of experience building data platforms, BI solutions and teaching database and AI concepts. Currently at Critical TechWorks (a BMW Group venture) he blends product ownership and prior hands-on data engineering expertise—AWS, Terraform, Glue, PySpark and data warehouse automation—to translate product strategy into delivery. He has led teams, run scrum, and previously architected enterprise data warehouses and automated data quality and alerting systems in life sciences. An experienced educator and organizer, he co-founded U.Project to connect students with startups, has assisted university AI classes, and now trains professionals in SQL and practical database skills. Outside engineering he publishes books and poetry and writes extensively on personal finance and entrepreneurship, a mix that surfaces in clear, audience-aware technical communication. Practical, interdisciplinary, and community-minded, he excels at turning complex data problems into teachable, product-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Informatics and Computing Engineering, Master's degree Informatics and Computing Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Informatics Technician - Level IV of QNQ Informatics and Multimedia Technologies, Informatics Technician - Level IV of QNQ Informatics and Multimedia Technologies at Colégio de Gaia
Portuguese, English