Rafael Pierre
Specialist Solutions Architect AI & Machine Learning at Databricks
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRafael Pierre is a Specialist Solutions Architect in AI & Machine Learning with a decade of experience designing and shipping production-grade ML systems across finance, energy and retail. Based in Amsterdam, he blends deep hands-on expertise in MLOps, LLMs, computer vision and NLP with platform-scale tooling such as Spark, MLflow, Kubernetes and Hugging Face to help enterprises operationalize generative and deep learning solutions. He has moved from data engineering and product roles in banking and trading to senior ML engineering and solutions architecture at Databricks, consistently focusing on reproducible pipelines, model serving and real-time integration. Rafael’s background in both academia and open source informs his pragmatic approach to architecture, and he often pairs advanced research stacks (PyTorch Lightning, Deepspeed, Horovod) with pragmatic infra (Terraform, Kafka) to accelerate customer outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasBachelor of Science - BSc., Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc., Computer Science at UFSCar - AlumniMaster of Science - MSc., Information Studies, Data Science Track, Master of Science - MSc., Information Studies, Data Science Track at Universiteit van Amsterdam
English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese
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Github Skills (72)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
apache-airflow10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
elt10
data-integration10
data-pipelines10
data-science10
workflow-engine10
apache10
dag10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelpierre/pyjaws
May 2023 - Jan 2026
PyJaws: A Pythonic Way to Define Databricks Jobs and Workflows
Contributions:4 reviews, 43 PRs, 135 pushes in 2 years 9 months
databricksairflowcicddata-engineeringmlops
rafaelpierre/JupyterAMS
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 10 months
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