Summary
Rafael D is a Senior Data Engineer and Software Engineer with 11 years of experience and over seven years focused on delivering cloud-native data platforms, pipelines, and system integrations. He has led large-scale migrations and near-real-time CDC architectures across enterprises, blending hands-on work with Terraform, Kafka, Airflow/Databricks, and AWS/GCP to build data lakes, warehouses, and feature stores with Security and Privacy by Design. Comfortable as a remote-first collaborator, he excels at asynchronous stakeholder communication, documentation, and mentoring while driving data governance, observability, and CI/CD for data workloads. His background in health informatics and research-grade time-series feature engineering—processing tens of thousands of hours of accelerometer data—gives him a distinctive edge in feature engineering and ML-ready pipelines. Pragmatic and solution-focused, he consistently translates complex business requirements into scalable, auditable data products that reduce manual work and accelerate decision-making.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Health Informatics (Biomedical Informatics), 8.3/10. Essay: 10/10., B.Sc., Health Informatics (Biomedical Informatics), 8.3/10. Essay: 10/10. at University of São Paulo
English, Portuguese