Summary
Mário De Sá Vera is a senior data and engineering leader with 12 years of experience delivering large-scale data platforms and products across pharma, CPG, travel and banking. Currently Associate Director for DD&IT Data Products at Novartis, he has repeatedly led cloud migrations, data engineering teams and CI/CD-driven testing cultures to operationalize analytics and decision-making at scale. His background spans hands-on architecture and implementation—from real-time streaming and Kafka CDC to Spark/Scala storage libraries and bi-temporal milestoning for enterprise ETL—combined with product ownership and cross-functional stakeholder management. Notable past roles include leading Integrated Business Planning data engineering at PepsiCo, platform migrations at Tripadvisor and storage-layer design authority at JPMorgan Chase. He began his career building embedded systems and GIS/toolkits and even founded a startup for urban transport software, giving him a rare mix of low-level systems experience and strategic data product delivery. Based in Barcelona, he blends applied mathematics training with pragmatic engineering to turn complex requirements into reliable, production-grade data solutions.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics
Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration, Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration at Oracle Education of New York
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science at Universidade Federal Fluminense
Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at Universidad de Chile
Portuguese, French, Spanish, English