Ricardo Pereira
Senior Data Engineer
Braga, Braga, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Pereira is a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, reliable data platforms, currently at Revolut where he focuses on lakehouse migrations and petabyte-scale data workflows. He specializes in distributed systems and cost-efficient cloud architectures, leveraging open-source tools like Apache Spark, Trino, and Iceberg to optimize compute, storage, and query performance. His background includes end-to-end data pipeline work at Talkdesk and hands-on backend development early in his career, giving him practical cross-stack insight. Ricardo also tutors computer science topics and completed research on adaptive consensus protocols for blockchain, reflecting a blend of applied engineering and academic curiosity. Based in Braga, Portugal, he brings a pragmatic interest in how architecture decisions translate into real-world scalability and reliability outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
12º year Scientific Area, 12º year Scientific Area at Escola Secundária de AmaresMaster's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at Universidade do Minho
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (59)
databases10
big-data10
apache10
java10
apache-iceberg10
data-science9
sql-query9
analytics9
indexing9
jdbc9
distributed-systems9
presto9
sql9
hive9
sql-database9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ricardopereira33/LI3Java
Apr 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:17 commits in 2 years
ricardopereira33/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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