Asaph Diniz Tinoco
Cloud & Data Engineer|AWS|Terraform|Databricks
Salary / Daily rate
Marseille, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Cloud & Data Engineer with 5+ years specializing in AWS, Terraform, and Databricks across fintech and SaaS sectors. Founded Cloudnx, delivering multi-cloud solutions, expert in end-to-end infrastructure automation and data pipeline optimization for scalable, cost-efficient cloud transformations.
Work experience
Director & Chief Engineer
CloudnxFreelance
Jan 2022 - Present
4 years 10 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
• Founded Cloudnx, delivering cloud & data engineering consulting for fintech, remittance, and SaaS clients across Europe, US and Brazil • Designed and deployed multi-cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP) using Terraform (IaC), enabling clients to scale securely and cost-efficiently. • Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Airflow, reducing deployment times by 60%. • Deployed Databricks platforms and data pipelines, improving data availability and reliability for analytics teams. • Led cloud cost optimization projects, reducing monthly AWS bills by up to 25% through FinOps practices. • Acted as both technical lead and business owner: client management, architecture reviews, and hands-on engineering.
Cloud & Platform Engineer
Devoteam
Apr 2022 - May 2025
3 years 2 months
Lyon, France
• Led cloud build projects, designing and deploying AWS infrastructure at scale. • Built platform foundations to enable application teams to deploy securely and autonomously. • Automated provisioning with Terraform (IaC), improving reliability and reducing environment setup time by 70%. • Contributed to platform engineering initiatives: standardization of infrastructure patterns, CI/CD templates, and deployment practices. • Integrated logging, monitoring, and observability tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus), strengthening system resilience and compliance. • Collaborated with DevOps and security teams to enforce cloud governance, cost control, and best practices across projects.
Senior Platform & Data Engineer
ZepzFreelance
Apr 2023 - May 2025
2 years 2 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
• Built & maintained scalable AWS data pipelines • Designed infra with Terraform (IaC) • Implemented CI/CD automation for infra & pipelines • Optimized Databricks ML workloads with Data Science teams
Senior Data Engineer
Sendwave (International Remittance)Freelance
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
1 year 3 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
• Migration from GCP to AWS, re-architected services • Improved data pipelines with Airflow, Spark & containerized ETL • Migrated BI from Periscope to Looker • Optimized models & pipelines • Provisioned secure platforms • Automated infra deployments & packaging with Terraform
Blu
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
2 years
Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cloud Engineer
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
7 months
Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Designed, deployed, and administered AWS infrastructure using services such as EC2, VPC, ELB/ALB, Lambda, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, EKS, SQS, SNS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and MSK (Kafka). • Built and maintained secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud environments across development and production. • Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible to automate provisioning and enforce consistency. • Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, enabling automated deployments and reducing release friction. • Monitored system health and performance using Datadog, Prometheus, and CloudWatch, with alerting and observability dashboards. • Applied FinOps practices to track cloud usage and implement cost-control strategies across multiple AWS accounts.
Data Engineer
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
1 year 7 months
Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Translated business needs into data solutions through close collaboration with stakeholders. • Designed and maintained reliable ETL processes and data warehouse architecture to support strategic and operational analytics. • Led the migration from Sisense to Looker, improving reporting performance and user adoption. • Built robust data models to ensure consistency and accuracy across financial and operational domains. • Developed automated financial reporting pipelines, improving efficiency and reducing manual work. • Created actionable dashboards and KPIs for C-level and business units, enabling data-driven decisions. • Contributed to fraud detection and sales forecasting initiatives through data preparation and feature engineering. • Acted as a digital transformation agent, introducing cloud-based analytics and automation tools. • Led the Financial BI team, including process mapping, governance, and long-term data strategy.
Education
Polytechnic School of UFRJ
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
2013 - 2020
8 years
Institut français de Mécanique avancée
Master's degree
2016 - 2018
3 years