
Aristeidis Kesopoulos
Data & Analytics Engineer | AWS Certified
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Mobility: Paris
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
I am a Data and Analytics Engineer (AWS Certified) with 3 years of experience building cloud-native ELT pipelines, data models, and analytics systems. I was given responsibility early in my career thanks to fast learning and reliability, and I have managed to contribute significant business value in multiple projects. Proficient with Python, SQL, dbt, Snowflake, AWS, and modern data engineering tools.
Work experience
Data Engineer
Self-EmployedFreelance
Nov 2024 - Present
2 years
Remote
• Migrated a legacy VPS-hosted real-estate platform to AWS Lightsail and S3, reducing annual infrastructure costs by ~5× and improving backup reliability with automated snapshot workflows and IAM-based access controls • Designed and deployed a serverless ETL using S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, and Athena, reducing data latency from several hours to under 10 minutes through retries, schema validation, and alerting • Built a reproducible analytics environment with Meltano, dbt, DuckDB, and Superset, enabling self-service reporting through version-controlled transformations, dbt tests, and Git-based CI/CD
Analytics Engineer
Weisse Arena Gruppe
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
4 months
Laax, Switzerland
• Built and deployed end-to-end ELT pipelines in the company’s Snowflake data warehouse, integrating Lightspeed POS data across 15+ hospitality business units using Airbyte, dbt, and Metabase • Delivered the Lightspeed integration one month ahead of schedule, enabling a unified self-service dashboard for restaurant managers and a senior stakeholder, consolidating previously siloed revenue and operational metrics • Designed a complete dbt transformation layer (raw → intermediate → marts) with documentation and tests, improving transparency and reliability of reporting for gastronomy operations • Developed a second ELT workflow for Zendesk customer-feedback data, automating manual analysis and providing management with a unified view of customer sentiment • Identified upstream data-quality issues in Lightspeed (categorization inconsistencies) and flagged them to leadership, helping establish a more reliable workflow and improving trust in core operational data
Data Engineer
Thessaloniki Real Estate
May 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 8 months
Thessaloniki, Greece
• Developed Python ETL workflows to extract and integrate property data from external listing APIs into the company's MySQL database, expanding dataset coverage and reducing manual data-entry workload by 30-40% • Implemented data validation logic to detect price anomalies and missing required fields, improving data accuracy for customer-facing search • Optimized database query performance through indexing and query refactoring, reducing report generation time and enabling faster access to inventory and pricing data • Built automated reporting workflows using Python to generate weekly market and internal operations analysis, replacing manual Excel-based analysis and enabling faster business decisions
Education
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
BSc, Physics
2016 - 2022
6 years
• Thesis: 'Exploratory Analysis of Ferromagnetic Materials' — reproducible data analysis in Python using data from 'The Materials Project' database of ab-initio calculations — Grade: 10/10 • Relevant coursework: Numerical Analysis (Python), Topics in Quantum Physics (Python), Probability & Statistics
Licenses & certifications
AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate
Issued: May 2025
Data Engineering Bootcamp
Issued: Jan 2025
Data Scientist Professional
Issued: Apr 2023
Data Analyst Professional
Issued: Feb 2023
Portfolio

Customer Growth, Retention & CLV — Analytics Case Study

FXLake: Serverless ETL on AWS
