Summary
Ricardo Galiardi is a Principal Data Architect and Senior Data Engineer based in São Paulo with eight years focused on building scalable cloud-native data platforms and AI/ML solutions for global clients. He has led Lakehouse modernizations on Databricks, optimized TB–PB batch and streaming pipelines with advanced Spark techniques, and delivered observability, FinOps and RAG-driven incident response integrations that improved SLAs and reduced cloud waste. His background spans healthcare and pharma analytics—designing image-processing pipelines and ML models for cancer detection and optimizing pharmaceutical field operations—combined with hands-on work across Azure, GCP and AWS. A practiced technical leader and mentor, he balances architecture, governance and delivery for distributed teams across the UK, US and India. Notably, he couples deep engineering craft with a pragmatic business lens from an MBA in Data Science and continuous upskilling in probability and statistics at USP.
8 years of coding experience