Ricardo Dahis
Assistant Professor at Monash University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolRicardo Dahis is an economist and academic who blends rigorous research training from a Northwestern PhD with a decade of hands-on experience building data platforms and products. He co-founded Base dos Dados, where he led data harmonization for major Brazilian datasets and now oversees product, SRE, data engineering and design as Head of Product. As an assistant professor at PUC-Rio and currently at Monash University, he teaches and publishes in applied economics while translating academic methods into practical, production-ready data systems. His work spans field research logistics (J-PAL), large-scale dataset curation, and platform schema design—skills that let him move seamlessly between code, policy, and pedagogy. Based in Melbourne with roots in Brazil, he combines academic rigor with startup grit, having manually indexed 1,000+ datasets into searchable infrastructure for researchers and policymakers.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
International Exchange Program, Economics, International Exchange Program, Economics at Sciences PoMaster of Arts - MA, Economics, Master of Arts - MA, Economics at Departamento de Economia PUC-RioDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at Northwestern UniversityHigh School, High School at Eliezer Steinberg - Max NordauHigh School, High School at Lake Ridge Academy
English, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Portuguese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
python10
economics10
backend10
brazil10
r10
geopandas10
ckan10
sql10
bigquery10
data-science10
open-data10
data-lake10
reproducible-research10
geopackage10
rio9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jmshapir/TestWorkflow
Jul 2016 - Oct 2020
Repository to test github workflow
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
testingworkflow
basedosdados/sdk
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
⚙️ Código de manutenção do datalake (metadados e pacotes de acesso) | 📖 Docs: https://basedosdados.org/docs/home
Contributions:1 release, 574 reviews, 239 commits in 2 years 3 months
data-lakedados-abertosbigquerytransparenciaopen-data
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