Nitai Silva
Senior Data Engineer
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Top SchoolNitai Silva is a Senior Data Engineer with 13 years of experience building open data platforms and data workflows for Brazilian federal agencies and political analytics firms. He blends hands-on engineering—Airflow orchestration, Kubernetes-deployed data lakes, FastAPI services and MongoDB/Elasticsearch stacks—with product and governance experience gained as a former Ministry CTO. He led migrations from legacy ETL to modern pipelines, taught Airflow and data engineering best practices, and drove open-source and transparency initiatives across government IT. At Mapeo he designs private-cloud pipelines ingesting WhatsApp, Telegram and YouTube content while ensuring RBAC, auditing and test-driven backend quality. Known as an open data specialist and free-software advocate, he has a MSc in Computer Science and a track record of hacking procurement and academic partnerships to deliver production software at scale.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado, Computer Science, Mestrado, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
apache-airflow10
data-engineering10
rio10
scheduler10
elt10
data-integration10
data-pipelines10
data-science10
workflow-engine10
apache10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
destaquesgovbr/scraper
Sep 2024 - Dec 2025
Raspador de notícias dos órgãos do governo federal do Brasil.
Contributions:1 review, 21 PRs, 142 pushes in 1 year 3 months
dados-abertosgovbrllmscraper
destaquesgovbr/portal
Nov 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 48 PRs in 8 months
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