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Luigi Acorda

@luigiacorda

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Backend-focused data engineer building scalable ETL pipelines and reliable payment data services.

Philippines

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles focused on building scalable data and backend platforms, with strong CI/CD, automation, and collaborative engineering culture to grow as a data platform engineer.

I am a backend-focused data engineer with 4+ years building large-scale payment systems, ETL pipelines, and Spring Boot microservices. I deliver analytics-ready data using AWS Glue and Apache Spark, own Couchbase-backed services, and maintain high test coverage and CI/CD automation.

At Samsung I reduced data footprint by 80%+ through Parquet conversions, supported millions of real-time transactions, resolved hundreds of production issues, and automated reliable workflows. I continue strengthening my data engineering skills through an ongoing DataCamp certification focused on Spark, SQL, and Python ETL.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Backend Data Engineer

Samsung Electronics

Sep 2021 - Nov 2024 (3 years 2 months)

Developed AWS Glue Spark ETL pipelines converting JSON to Parquet (reducing file sizes 80%+) and built Spark SQL jobs to load analytics-ready tables into AWS RDS; owned a Couchbase-backed data service and supported Samsung Pay microservices handling millions of transactions per minute.

Apache Spark AWS Glue Parquet S3 Couchbase Spring Boot MySQL GitHub Actions Jenkins

Junior Java Developer

Aiah.ai — InnoVantage, Inc.

Mar 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year 6 months)

Designed and deployed Spring Boot RESTful APIs within a microservice architecture, scaled services on Kubernetes with GCP databases, and maintained 90%+ test coverage using JUnit and Mockito.

Java Spring Boot REST APIs Kubernetes GCP Junit Mockito Gradle SonarQube

Research Assistant

Center for Language Technologies

Sep 2018 - Oct 2019 (1 year 1 month)

Built ML models (LDA, XGBoost) for text analytics and personality prediction and developed a PHP web app for data collection and preprocessing to support research projects.

Machine Learning LDA XGBoost PHP data preprocessing Text Analytics Python Research

Java Web Developer Intern

Ivant Technologies and Business Solutions, Inc.

Jan 2018 - May 2018 (4 months)

Led backend development of an insurance scheduling system using Spring MVC, Hibernate, and MySQL and designed optimized database schemas for transactional workloads.

Java Spring MVC Hibernate MySQL Backend Development Database Design REST