Marcondes Silva
Python AWS Expert | Senior Lead Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
92000 Nanterre, France
Mobility: London, Brussels
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
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About me
Intro
Senior Software Engineer & Founding Engineer with deep expertise in Python, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS, CI/CD, and scalable system design. Built AI-enhanced analytics platforms, engineered large ETL pipelines for 100k+ funds, and shipped end-to-end SaaS products across fintech, edtech, and travel-tech.
Work experience
Founding Engineer
EDHEC-Risk Institute
Aug 2020 - Nov 2025
5 years 4 months
Paris, France
* Founding engineer and first tech of a new ESG-focused B2B Investment Portfolio Analytics tool incubated by EDHEC-Risk Institute, designed to empower investors with independent analysis and construction of equity portfolios. * Application Architecture & Team Leadership: Designed and implemented a custom analytics platform from concept to production, enabling institutional clients to assess ESG compliance, climate-related financial risks, and investment strategies. Founded and built the tech team from scratch, establishing Agile workflows (Kanban with weekly sprints) and partially implementing XP programming to enhance collaboration and accountability. Prioritized feature delivery aligned with client needs. * AI-Enhanced Financial Data Infrastructure: Engineered an AI-enhanced automated ETL pipeline to process updates for 100k+ ETFs and funds across 10 global markets, optimizing data accuracy and caching for real-time analytics. Integrated RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to deal with data anomalies from raw provider data and for predicting issues to abort pipelines with logs and troubleshooting. * Deployment Efficiency & DevOps: Managed frequent releases across six environments (development to production) using automated CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment cycles to under 10 minutes. * Technologies: * Backend: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Pandas, Numpy, Celery * Frontend: React, TypeScript, Redux, Highcharts, Cloudfront * Cloud/DevOps: AWS, Jenkins, Ansible, Prefect, Dask * Monitoring: New Relic, Grafana, Sentry, Rollbar, SonarQube
Director Of Engineering
ClickBus
May 2018 - May 2020
2 years 1 month
São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil
* Large-Scale Team Management: Led and mentored a department of 24 engineers across diverse product lines (Online Travel Agency, GDS, API, Backoffice, Enterprise, Interface, Whitelabels), overseeing hiring, performance reviews, and one-on-one sessions. * Leadership Development: Mentored 4 managers, fostering their leadership capabilities and ensuring consistent management practices across teams. * Technical Architecture & Agile Adoption: Provided strategic technical architecture guidance for critical ClickBus products, driving efficiency and predictability through Kanban and XP Techniques. * Technologies: * Backend: Java, Springboot, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis * Frontend: PHP, Symphony, Vue.JS * Mobile: Swift, Kotlin, Java, Fastlane * Infrastructure: Jira, AWS, Bamboo
Voxy
Oct 2015 - May 2018
2 years 8 months
São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil
Engineering Manager
May 2017 - May 2018
1 year 1 month
São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil
* Team Building & Growth: Built and led a São Paulo-based Fullstack Engineering team overseeing the company's end-to-end technical infrastructure. Enabled partners and users to create tailored digital solutions through collaborative design and development. * Performance & Conflict Management: Conducted structured performance evaluations and feedback processes, and actively engaged in cultural and conflict resolution to foster a cohesive and high-performing environment. * Strategic & Hands-on Leadership: Coordinated cross-functional initiatives to align technical and business priorities; frequently transitioned between leadership and hands-on engineering roles, resolving technical challenges directly to maintain delivery momentum. * Technologies: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BackboneJS, Karma, Coffeescript, Less, Jade, Objective-C (iOS), Java (Android), Pig, Python, Hadoop, AWS Elastic Map Reduce, Jenkins, Fabric, AWS.
Engineering Team Lead
Oct 2015 - May 2017
1 year 8 months
New York, NY, USA
* Distributed Agile Team Leadership: Led a distributed team of full-stack agile software engineers (New York and São Paulo) in building an ESL platform, championing 100% Pair Programming, Test Driven Development (TDD), retrospectives, Iteration Planning Meetings (IPMs), and Dev Meetings to ensure high quality and continuous improvement. * AI/ML & Data Development: Drove development across Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Mobile (iOS/Android), Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing (NPL) initiatives. * Technologies: * Backend: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB * Frontend: BackboneJS, Karma, Coffeescript, Less, Jade * Mobile: Objective-C (iOS), Java (Android) * Big Data: Pig, Python, Hadoop, AWS Elastic Map Reduce * DevOps: Jenkins, Fabric, AWS
Senior Software Engineer
Titans Group
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
9 months
São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil
* Agile Web & Mobile Development: Contributed to international MOOC web and mobile applications as part of an agile team, building REST APIs, infrastructure, and tooling that supported mobile and web app counterparts. * Technologies: * Backend: Python 3, MySQL, Redis, Django (v1.8), Django Rest Framework * DevOps: CI/CD, Jenkins, AWS (EC2, Elastic Transcode, S3 Buckets, Lambda) * Frontend: BackboneJS, Coffeescript, SASS
Agile Software Engineer
ThoughtWorks
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
1 year 3 months
Recife, State of Pernambuco, Brazil
* Agile Consulting & Diverse Domains: Served as an Agile software engineer consultant across diverse projects in Airlines, Car sales, and Retail, adapting quickly to new technical challenges and business contexts. * Technologies: Python, Ruby, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, DurandalJS, SpringMVC.
Software Engineer
Procenge
Jan 2013 - Jan 2014
1 year 1 month
Recife, State of Pernambuco, Brazil
Development and maintenance of the company’s ERP system and external web presentation. Working closely with System Architect. Tech: C#.NET, PL-SQL/Oracle, SQLWindows (Centura), SAP Crystal Reports, Javascript.
Software Engineer
Atonyx Systems
May 2011 - Jul 2012
1 year 3 months
Paris, France
Working on the development of Atonyx’s weather monitoring system. Developed for monitoring weather in difficult-access areas. The system codebase is C/C++, use of BOOST library, SOCKET programming, some threading was a norm.
Web Developer
2xmoinscher.com
Jun 2010 - May 2011
1 year
Paris, France
Développement Web, working on different teams.
Education
University of Lille 1 Sciences and Technology
Licence Informatique
2007 - 2010
4 years