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Carlos Silva

@carlossilva2

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Data Engineer and AI Engineer building scalable pipelines and ML-ready datasets for impact.

Paraguay

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I build end-to-end data pipelines and AI-ready datasets, partner with international teams, and own reliability—from validation to production—while delivering measurable business impact.

I’m a Data Engineer and AI Engineer with 6+ years of experience, blending a background in mechatronics, robotics, and software development to build scalable data solutions and AI-integrated tools. I focus on optimized, reliable pipelines—enhancing data processing efficiency by over 20%—so teams can trust datasets for downstream model training and inference.

In my recent roles, I’ve designed Bronze/Silver/Gold lakehouse architectures, engineered robust ETL/ELT pipelines with validation using Great Expectations, and used fallback logic to improve production reliability. I also ship ML and LLM-enabled capabilities—semantic search and text summarization—collaborating with stakeholders to translate business needs into data-driven insights through tools like Power BI.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Data Engineer

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FortyAU

Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Enhanced data processing efficiency by 20% by optimizing Fabric, PySpark, and Delta Lake workflows. Built scalable Bronze/Silver/Gold lakehouse architectures and automated ETL/ELT pipelines with validation and repair to improve reliability of datasets used for ML training and inference.

Microsoft Fabric Pyspark Delta Lake Azure Data Factory REST APIs Great Expectations Data Validation Lakehouse Architecture Power BI Data Pipeline Engineering

Data Engineer

MentorMate

Aug 2021 - Mar 2025 (3 years 7 months)

Designed and implemented cloud-native data solutions on AWS and Azure, reducing infrastructure costs by 18% through optimized resource allocation. Developed enterprise LLM applications (semantic search and text summarization) improving retrieval efficiency by 40%, and built dashboards integrated with React.js for 200+ business users.

AWS RedShift Azure Synapse Databricks Snowflake Python Apache Spark LLM Application Development Semantic Search Summarization React

Assistant Teacher

Asuncion National University

Jan 2017 - Jan 2023 (6 years)

Taught 100+ students Object-Oriented Programming in C++ and Python, improving average exam scores by 15%. Mentored students through algorithms and data structures labs, designed 50+ programming assignments with personalized feedback, and led an IEEE-published machine learning research initiative with keynote presentations for 100+ academics.

C++Python Object Oriented Programming Data Structures Algorithms Machine Learning Research Technical Instruction

Machine Learning Engineer

Warden Automation

Feb 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 6 months)

Developed real-time facial detection using TensorFlow and scikit-learn, achieving 95%+ accuracy, and productionized ML models by integrating them into web and mobile apps to reduce manual processing time by 30%. Implemented NLP text analysis improving data extraction efficiency by 40% and built responsive React/Vue applications serving 15,000+ monthly active users.