Stefano Messina
Lead Data Engineer
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolStefano Messina is a Lead Data Engineer based in Amsterdam with nine years of experience building data platforms and orchestration pipelines across cloud environments. He brings a researcher's mindset from a PhD in astroparticle physics to pragmatic engineering—designing ETL, Airflow, DBT and Glue workflows and implementing durable orchestrations on Azure and Snowflake integrations. Stefano has led delivery for clients like LeasePlan and built MVPs such as a PDF-extraction tool, demonstrating a knack for turning experimental prototypes into production-ready systems. Colleagues describe him as analytically rigorous and creatively committed, often questioning assumptions to uncover simpler, more robust solutions. His background in scientific instrumentation and large-scale data analysis gives him a rare fluency in both low-level data problems and high-level architecture.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astroparticle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astroparticle Physics at Rijksuniversiteit GroningenMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Theoretical Physics, 108/110, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Theoretical Physics, 108/110 at Università degli Studi di CataniaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, 108/110, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, 108/110 at Università di Catania
Spanish, English, French, Italian, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
metadata10
azure-cli10
automation10
scheduler10
api10
data-science10
data-modeling10
command-line10
complexity10
operation10
python10
pandas10
eclipseiot10
slack10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cgauge/Flask-AWSCognito
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Extension for Flask that adds support for AWSCognito into your application
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
flaskpythonawscognito
labaffa/demetrio
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
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