Summary
Paulo Nunes is an Engineering & Architecture Lead with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms across cloud and on-prem ecosystems. He has led platform engineering and data architecture initiatives at Xpand IT—working with Azure, Google Cloud, Databricks, Cloudera, Confluent Kafka and container orchestration stacks—before moving to a principal engineering role at ANA - Aeroportos de Portugal. Trained in software engineering and distributed systems at Instituto Superior Técnico, Paulo bridges deep technical design with pragmatic delivery, from Hadoop-era big data to modern cloud-native data platforms. He is comfortable shaping platform strategy, reliability and observability while still getting hands-on with databases, streaming and orchestration tooling. Colleagues describe him as passionate about excellence and focused on turning complex data requirements into operational, scalable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate's degree Computer Science, Licentiate's degree Computer Science at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Master's degree Software Engineering & Distributed Systems, Master's degree Software Engineering & Distributed Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish