Summary
Renan Cruz is a Sr. Staff Data Engineer based in São Paulo with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale data and ML platforms across gaming, legal, and retail. He combines deep engineering skills in distributed systems, Spark, Kafka and cloud automation with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach that has driven TB/PB ingestion pipelines, query-cost optimizations, and dozens of models in production. As an ML platform leader he automated end-to-end ML lifecycles, feature stores, experiment versioning and online serving, while also translating business needs into measurable OKRs. A lifelong learner fluent in Ruby and Java, he pairs hands-on implementation with strategic planning and close collaboration with business users to deliver impactful analytics. Notably, he has experience prototyping with cutting-edge storage tech like Apache Iceberg and pushing latency-conscious streaming solutions into production.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
Exchange Program, Computer Engineering, Exchange Program, Computer Engineering at Syracuse University
Portuguese, English, Chinese