Luigi Acorda
@luigiacorda
Backend-focused data engineer building scalable ETL pipelines and reliable payment data services.
What I'm looking for
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
De La Salle University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2015 - 2019
Grade: Dean's Lister (A.Y. 2016-2017)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a major in Software Technology; Dean's Lister for academic year 2016–2017.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Snowflake
Apache Spark
AWS Glue
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
GitHub
SonarQube
Kubernetes
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
PySpark
dbt
MySQL
Couchbase
Gmail
Spring Boot
Spring MVC
Google Analytics
Gradle
Python
Java
PHP
JSON
Elasticsearch
JUnit
Mockito
Docker
Google BigQuery
Luigi
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
SQL
XGBoost
Transform
Jan
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
linkedin.com/in/luigiacordaSalary expectations
Social media
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