Rafael Bottega
Staff Data Engineer
Spain
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Top SchoolRafael Bottega is a Staff Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing data platforms across fintech and travel industries, currently architecting Chainalysis’s Databricks-based cloud platform and high-revenue pipelines. He blends hands-on engineering (Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, Kafka, dbt) with platform leadership—having led squads, reduced costs by large margins, and driven migrations from monoliths to self-service architectures. Rafael has repeatedly delivered DataOps and Data Mesh initiatives, automating infrastructure with Terraform and containerized workflows to speed product cycles. Comfortable across the stack from DB2 and Postgres to modern cloud warehouses, he pairs strong analytical instincts with a habit of teaching teams Agile techniques. Notably, he has a track record of translating legacy ETL estates into tested, cost-efficient pipelines that enable data democratization and faster time-to-market.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems - Incomplete, Information Systems - Incomplete at UCS - Universidade de Caxias do Sul - Campus Bento GonçalvesSystem Analysis and Development, System Analysis and Development at FTSG - Faculdade de Tecnologia da Serra Gaúcha
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (38)
apache-airflow10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
machine-learning10
workflow-engine10
apache10
scheduler10
etl10
automation10
dag10
mlops10
airflow10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
boittega/airflow
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Contributions:23 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
monitorapacheprogrammaticallyapache-airflowairflow
boittega/datapipeline
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 commit, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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