Gabriel Gonçalves
@gabrielgonalves1
Senior data engineer building AWS-native Snowflake pipelines with Python, dbt, and Airflow to ship reliable data products.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Data Engineer focused on building production-grade data platforms and pipelines that improve efficiency, data quality, and decision-making. At Novi Labs, I built a modern AWS-native data platform and pipeline ecosystem for Oil & Gas analytics products, including migrating from on-premise systems to a Snowflake architecture and establishing dbt transformations and modeling orchestrated with Airflow.
Before that, I delivered enterprise Snowflake data platform solutions and robust customer-facing analytics pipelines while managing warehouse/platform operations, security, and cost optimization on AWS at Billtrust. I also served on technical assessment work for senior engineering candidates at Perform, combining hands-on data engineering expertise with careful evaluation of data, AI engineering, and software engineering competencies. Earlier roles strengthened my end-to-end capability—designing an AWS Lakehouse (S3 + Delta Lake, Glue, Athena) with validation and orchestration, building analytics dashboards and OLTP-to-warehouse pipelines in Airflow, and developing large-scale automation systems using Python, Lambda, boto3, and Airflow orchestration—plus foundational expertise from my Bioinformatics background, including building genomic alignment/analysis pipelines with GATK.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Served as an AWS Data Engineer managing Snowflake’s enterprise data platform and building customer-facing analytics data pipelines. Administered and optimized Snowflake and AWS (warehouse management, security implementation, and cost optimization) and developed Airflow-based pipelines extracting from MongoDB and MySQL with dbt transformations.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
PhD, Genetics and Evolution
2014 - 2017
PhD program in Genetics and Evolution at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2014–2017), uncompleted.
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Research Scholar, Bioinformatics
2015 - 2016
Served as a Research Scholar in Bioinformatics from 2015 to 2016.
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
MSc, Genetics and Evolution
2011 - 2013
Completed an MSc in Genetics and Evolution from 2011 to 2013.
State University of Rio de Janeiro
BSc, Molecular Biology
2005 - 2010
Completed a BSc in Molecular Biology from 2005 to 2010.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Portfolio
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Skills
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