
Guilherme Banhudo
Senior Data Lead | Data Engineering
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Paris, France
Mobility: Montpellier, Toulouse
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
Data Lead with 8+ years building scalable data platforms across AI, e-Commerce, and Martech industries. Proven expertise in Apache Airflow, BigQuery, and dBT with 80% improvement in data quality and availability. Specialized in end-to-end data architecture, team leadership, and creating self-serve analytics cultures that drive business growth.
Work experience
Data Lead | Lead Data Engineer
FreelanceFreelance
Jan 2025 - Present
1 year 10 months
Remote
Provide data engineering, leadership and architecture consulting for startups in AI, e-commerce, and Martech, designing scalable platforms and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines. Advise on data strategy, governance, and scaling, ensuring compliance and efficiency. Selected projects: o AI Startup (Lead Gen): Rebuilt ingestion pipelines processing 10M+ data points/day, cutting costs by 40%, increasing processing speed by 70%, and improving data quality by 30%. o E-commerce Startup (Shopify): Implemented an analytics stack, improving reporting accuracy by 25% and enabling a 360° business view spanning sales to ad spend
Bounce
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
1 year 5 months
Lisbon, Portugal
Data Lead
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
1 year 1 month
Lisbon, Portugal
- Promoted a self-serve culture with Steep, Hex, and Google Sheets, achieving 80% adoption and reducing ad-hoc reporting requests by 60%. - Implemented a Metrics Layer, standardizing business language, enhancing self-serve analytics and reducing decision turnaround time. - Established solid Data Engineering and Warehousing best practices including CI/CD pipelines, data governance, and automated testing, improving reliability and efficiency. Reduced pipeline incidents by 30% and onboarding time by 50%, while decreasing attrition and time-to-delivery, enabling scaling with fewer hires.. - Collaborated on Data Science initiatives, including demand forecasting, user segmentation, pricing optimization, driving business growth by 15%. - Led hiring and mentorship for Data Science, Analytics, and Engineering, fostering a strong data-driven culture.
Lead Data / Analytics Engineer
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024
5 months
Lisbon, Portugal
- Rebuilt the MVP data platform into a production-grade system across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, presentation, and governance, improving core metric accuracy by 40%. - Built a scalable, robust, and flexible Data Platform creating a unified business view and automating workflows. - Developed web scrapers for competitor, advertising and SEO data, enhancing growth and marketing analytics. - Improved trust in analytics across the organization, accelerating adoption of self-serve reporting.
Advisor
C-MORE | Beyond the Obvious
May 2024 - Aug 2024
4 months
Data Lead
Tamanna.com
Dec 2021 - Oct 2023
1 year 11 months
Portugal / Dubai / Kuwait · Remote
- Led the Data Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams, driving data-driven decision-making across the company. - Developed, executed and championed the data strategy, aligning with business and technology leaders to prioritize initiatives, plan resources, and build a high-performing team. - Replaced legacy systems with a Delta Lakehouse (Databricks + Airflow + ADF + Python), reducing infrastructure costs by 90% and shrinking reporting latency and time to insight from 28 hours to 30 minutes. - Built a central metrics and reporting layer in Power BI, improving adoption by 70% and ensuring consistent KPIs and discussions across teams - Automated workflows to streamline data pipelines and reporting processes, improving efficiency and saving 300+ hours/month. - Established data governance and engineering standards, improving delivery reliability and reducing onboarding time by 50% and improving data literacy. - Provided analytical support and mentorship, enabling teams to derive insights and optimize business performance.
doValue
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
2 years 7 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Data Lead
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 7 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
- Built a new Data Platform in Apache Airflow, Spark, and Azure Synapse, replacing an outdated SSIS-based system, resulting in a dynamic, modular architecture that improved data quality, speed and availability by 80%. - Developed a robust reporting layer in Power BI and Excel, ensuring a single source of truth with a standardized business language. - Delivered self-service BI dashboards in Power BI, reducing reporting turnaround by 40% for Finance and Operations teams. - Owned and automated key reporting processes, delivering high-quality, reliable data to internal stakeholders, external entities (JP Morgan, KPMG, Deloitte, Citibank, DoValue), and the CEO’s office. - Built and led a Data Engineering and Analytics team, establishing a data-driven culture and improving collaboration across the organization. - Managed and mentored a team of Data Analysts and Engineers, introducing agile methods and best practices. - Contributed to a data-driven culture, strengthening collaboration between business and technology teams.
Analytics Engineer
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
1 year 2 months
Lisbon, Portugal
Contributing Author
Towards Data Science
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
1 year 1 month
Main topics: - SQL | NoSQL - Python | Go - Machine Learning | Deep Learning | Deep Reinforcement Learning - Apache Airflow, Spark
Fidelidade
Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
3 years
Lisbon Area, Portugal
Financial Analyst
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
2 years
Lisbon Area, Portugal
Skills: Financial Analysis
Risk Management & Actuarial Trainee
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
1 year
Lisbon Area, Portugal
One-year trainee program, comprised of two 6-month projects on different sectors. Project 1: Risk Management • Assessing and supporting the group-wide and individual Loss-Absorbing Capacity of Deferred Taxes (LACDT) under Solvency II. Project 2: Data Analysis • Asymmetrical service provider behavior identification • Per-diagnosis optimal treatment mapping (Basket Analysis)
Assistant Professor
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Sep 2016 - Aug 2018
2 years
Lisbon Area, Portugal
Corporate Finance course for the following Masters programs: • Economics • Management
Education
Udacity
Data Engineering Nanodegree
2021 - 2021
1 month
NOVA IMS Information Management School
Postgraduate
2020 - 2021
1 year 1 month
ISCTE Business School
Master’s Degree
2015 - 2016
1 year 1 month
ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management
Bachelor’s Degree
2009 - 2014
5 years 1 month
Instituto Superior Técnico
Computer Engineering
2008 - 2009
1 year 1 month