Aristeidis Kesopoulos

Data & Analytics Engineer | AWS Certified

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Mobility: Paris

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Data EngineeringdbtSQL databasesAWSGitHubClean CodePythonPostgreSQLAWS LambdaGitRESTful APIsData AnalysisNumPypandasData VisualizationETLMongoDBMetabaseDynamoDBAmazon EC2SnowflakeTableauSQL QueriesTerraformDockerJira

Languages

Greek (Native)English (Fluent)

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.

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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

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Data Engineering Bootcamp

Issued: Jan 2025

Certified by DataExpert.io

Data Scientist Professional

Issued: Apr 2023

Certified by DataCamp

Data Analyst Professional

Issued: Feb 2023

Certified by DataCamp

Portfolio

Customer Growth, Retention & CLV — Analytics Case Study

FXLake: Serverless ETL on AWS

A Modern Data Stack with Meltano

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