Pedro Faria
Senior Data Engineer
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolPedro Faria is a Senior Data Engineer from Minas Gerais with five years of experience building Big Data pipelines for major Brazilian financial clients like Banco BMG, Sodexo and Banco Pan. He specializes in Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, R and SQL, and operationalizes workflows with Apache Airflow and Azure Data Factory to handle datasets exceeding a billion rows. An economist by training, Pedro combines analytical rigor with engineering pragmatism to bridge business insight and scalable data platforms. He is a prolific technical writer and educator—authoring books on Zig, R and PySpark—and maintains multi-language open-source projects in R, Python, C/C++ and Rust. Pedro spends his spare time studying and documenting technology, which keeps his work both current and community-facing.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado, Economics, Bacharelado, Economics at UFOP - Universidade Federal de Ouro PretoIntercâmbio Acadêmico, Economics, Intercâmbio Acadêmico, Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Github Skills (50)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pedropark99/Introd-pyspark
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 148 commits, 21 PRs in 9 months
pythonsparkintroductorypython-packagepyspark
pedropark99/zig-book
May 2024 - Mar 2025
An open, technical and introductory book for the Zig programming language 📚📖
Contributions:42 releases, 46 reviews, 117 PRs in 10 months
programming-languagetutorial-coursezigziglang
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