Francisco Carneiro

Senior Data Engineer

Salary / Daily rate

Lisbon, Portugal

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

PythonMachine LearningGoogle Cloud PlatformSQL QueriesKafkaGoogle BigQuerydbtApache AirflowTerraformDockerPostgreSQLKubernetesLookerscikit-learnCassandra

Languages

Portuguese (Native)English (Fluent)French (Fluent)Spanish

About me

Intro

Specialized in cloud platforms, scalable data systems, and data architecture, with a growing focus on AI and machine learning and a track record of delivering value in data-driven industries.

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Work experience

Senior Data Engineer

Agicap

Jan 2023 - Present

3 years 10 months

Paris, France

– Owned the design and delivery of business-critical data systems end-to-end, from business scoping and architecture to implementation and production support across batch and near-real-time workflows. – Led platform initiatives across CDC, orchestration, data ingestion, CI/CD, and infrastructure security, improving the scalability, reliability, and maintainability of the data platform. – Drove FinOps and scalability improvements through data warehouse optimization, cleanup of unused assets, workload tuning, and cost observability, generating recurring savings (30%) and improving platform efficiency. – Partnered with analysts, product, and business stakeholders to build robust data products, marts, alerts, and integrations that support operational and decision-making use cases.

Lead Data Engineer

Veolia

Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

2 years 1 month

Paris, France

– Spearheaded a Data Platform-as-a-Service initiative, leading the deployment of 20+ cloud data platforms across Veolia's business units. – Owned the design and maintenance of platform infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to enable scalable deployments. – Built transversal platform capabilities including alerting systems, data connectors, and usage dashboards to improve reliability and adoption. – Managed a team of 4 Data Engineers and advised internal stakeholders on data architecture, workflow design, and data modeling for analytics and operational use cases.

Data Architect

AKKA Technologies

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

1 year 1 month

Toulouse, France

– Developed an Industry 4.0 big data platform for industrial IoT use cases. – Designed data pipelines supporting both batch and streaming processing in a lambda-style architecture. Tested platform load with about 1 MB/s of data being produced. – Implemented real-time anomaly detection using supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods. – Horizontally scalable solution responding to real business / operational use-cases (alerting, real-time and batch analytics).


Education

University of Toulouse

Certificate, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Big Data

2019 - 2020

1 year 1 month

– 100-hour program covering machine learning, and big data infrastructure.

ISAE-SUPAERO / Instituto Superior Técnico

MSc Engineering Double Degree, Computer Science and Autonomous Systems

2018 - 2020

2 years 1 month

Specialization in computer science and autonomous systems.

Instituto Superior Técnico

BSc, Aerospace Engineering

2015 - 2018

3 years 1 month

– Recipient of academic achievement awards in 2016 and 2018.

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