Nilson Cunha
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolNilson Cunha is a data engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale analytics platforms, currently serving as the technical lead for critical credit analytics pipelines. He specializes in Lakehouse architectures, Apache Iceberg, PySpark, Airflow and AWS, and has a track record of cutting pipeline runtimes and query latencies by up to 65% through performance tuning and modernization. Nilson has led migrations from traditional data lakes to Iceberg-based architectures and defined engineering standards that improved reliability and observability for ML and analytics teams. He mentors junior engineers, performs technical reviews for production deploys, and routinely troubleshoots high-severity incidents under strict SLAs. Notably, his work has directly supported revenue-driving analytics and scaled daily processing of millions to billions of records across financial and tech sectors. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he combines hands-on pipeline development with architectural decision-making and infrastructure-as-code practices.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Pós-Graduação em Ciência de Dados e Big Data, T.I, Pós-Graduação em Ciência de Dados e Big Data, T.I at PUC MinasBacharelado em Sistema de Informação, Bacharelado em Sistema de Informação at Faculdades Promove
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (23)
seo10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme9
java7
database7
oracle6
sql6
ai6
sqlite6
data-engineer6
postgresql6
mysql6
streamlit5
jdbc5
db25
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nilsoncunha/portfolio_streamlit_enem_heroku
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Análise da base do enem de 2016 dessa vez realizada no Streamlit.
Contributions:1 review, 35 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 5 months
streamlit
nilsoncunha/nilsoncunha
Aug 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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