Luca Luz
@lucaluz
Data Engineer with experience in building and optimizing large-scale data pipelines in cloud environments.
What I'm looking for
I'm a Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience working with data, specializing in cloud data pipelines on Azure (Databricks, Data Factory, Synapse) and AWS. Currently at KIS Solutions, I work on two fronts: building a Customer Data Platform for a multinational cosmetics company in the UK market, processing millions of consumer records weekly through batch and streaming pipelines (Kafka, Delta Lake, Medallion architecture), and developing an AI-powered analytics platform on AWS, orchestrated with Apache Airflow.
Tech I work with daily: Python, PySpark, SQL, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Delta Lake, Kafka, Apache Airflow, AWS (S3, Redshift, ECS/Fargate, RDS), PostgreSQL, Power BI. I also use Claude and Cursor as AI copilots in my development workflow.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Develop and maintain batch and streaming CDP data pipelines ingesting consumer data from 8 source systems across 10+ brands. Built Azure Databricks/Delta Lake and Azure Data Factory Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) pipelines processing 2.2M+ consumers, 1.3M+ transactions, and 315M+ marketing events per quarter, including identity match & merge and data quality monitoring.
Junior Data Engineer
Vega Monitoramento
Dec 2024 - Aug 2025 (8 months)
Optimized AWS Databricks ETL pipelines for generating Sentinel-2 image mosaics and time series analysis, handling large datasets in S3 and PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Built geospatial visualization tools (QGIS plugin) and interactive dashboards (Power BI, Streamlit), plus automated ETL and API integrations supporting rural credit decisions.
Data Analyst
VEGA Monitoramento
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024 (5 months)
Automated geospatial data preparation using Python (Pandas, GeoPandas, ArcPy, NumPy), reducing manual processing time by up to 70% through API-driven extraction and transformation. Built geospatial ETL pipelines and Power BI dashboards modeling crop evolution across 20M+ hectares with dimensional relationships and unique keys for data compliance.
Junior Data Analyst
Vega Monitoramento
Oct 2022 - Jun 2024 (1 year 8 months)
Acquired, processed, and managed geospatial agricultural datasets collected from Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Used ArcGIS Pro and QGIS to edit geodatabases, build geoprocessing models, and produce thematic maps, providing technical GIS support to customer needs.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP)
Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Engineering
2019 - 2023
Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering at UNIVAP in São José dos Campos from 2019 to 2023.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Amazon Redshift
Azure Synapse
AWS Glue
AWS IAM
Microsoft Azure
GitHub
GitLab
GitLab CI
NumPy
Pandas
PySpark
PostGIS
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Databricks
JavaScript
Python
Streamlit
Kafka
Azure Monitor
AWS Lambda
Azure SQL Database
Docker
Airflow
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Power BI
SQL
Azure Blob Storage
Delta Lake
Cursor
Vale
Microsoft Fabric
Claude Code
Factory
Remote
Jan
ArcGIS Pro
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Social media
Job categories
Skills
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