Pedro Frota
Senior Data Engineer
Amazonas, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Frota is a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient, cost-conscious data platforms across startups and scale-ups in Brazil and beyond. He blends a software engineering and DBA/DevOps background to champion clean code, infra-as-code, test coverage and automation while delivering fast, high-quality results. His recent roles include migrating ingestion pipelines to Kafka Connect with Iceberg, optimizing Trino and Kubernetes costs, and architecting data platforms that ingest millions of pages monthly. Comfortable across the stack—Python, Spark, DBT, Iceberg/Hudi, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS—he favors pragmatic MVPs that balance performance and operability. Known for fast learning and a focus on measurable outcomes, he also brings hands-on DB reliability experience that informs robust pipeline design.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Data Engineering, Nanodegree Data Engineering at UdacitySoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (8)
backend8
database5
python5
rails4
orm4
activerecord4
ruby4
postgresql3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CodeForManaus/vacina-manaus
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
#VacinaManaus (www.vacinamanaus.com)
Contributions:6 reviews, 51 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 7 months
icomp-ufam/icomp
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:80 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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