Ricardo Gaspar
Lead DataOps Engineer Data Platform Engineer
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Gaspar is a Lead DataOps and Data Platform Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance data pipelines and platforms across Hadoop, AWS EMR, and cloud data lakes. Rooted in a SysAdmin background and early IT technician roles, he brings an end-to-end operational perspective that helps him optimize Spark/Scala workloads, observability, and reliability. He has driven data platform efforts at Cloudflare and multiple startups, advising teams on performance tuning, ETL design, and DevOps automation. As a founder of a consultancy, he pairs hands-on engineering with strategic guidance to help organisations get more value from data. Ricardo’s uncommon blend of HPC/distributed-systems curiosity and practical systems engineering means he often surfaces infrastructural improvements that reduce operational pain and cost. Based in Lisbon, he enjoys tackling challenging performance problems and mentoring teams to build scalable, maintainable data systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree IT Software, Master's Degree IT Software at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa12th IT Technician, 12th IT Technician at Escola Profissional Gustave Eiffel
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
pii10
python10
metadata10
etl10
data-lineage10
automation10
infrastructure10
mlops10
orchestration10
apache-airflow10
data-validation10
data-engineering10
linux10
scheduler10
elt10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ricardogaspar2/puppet-dsc-build
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ricardogaspar2/puppet-wmi
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 month
wmiimproveddefinedpuppet
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