Gabriel Dos Santos Gonçalves
Data Engineer Lead
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Dos Santos Gonçalves is a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience building and modernizing data platforms, currently leading data engineering efforts at Novi Labs from São Paulo. He has deep hands-on expertise with Snowflake, AWS Lakehouse architectures (S3 + Delta Lake + Glue + Athena), Airflow orchestration, dbt modelling and PySpark, having migrated legacy systems and scaled pipelines for high-throughput environments. Gabriel combines platform engineering with product-minded analytics—delivering customer-facing data products, feature stores, and messaging systems that send hundreds of thousands of daily communications. He also evaluates and mentors senior engineering talent, blending technical assessment with active delivery from his time at Perform and Billtrust. Early in his career he applied bioinformatics rigor to national-scale sequencing pipelines, a background that shaped his emphasis on reproducibility, validation and production-grade automation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Research Doctorate, Bioinformatics, Research Doctorate, Bioinformatics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonPhD (Unfinished), Genetics and Evolution, PhD (Unfinished), Genetics and Evolution at Federal University of Rio de JaneiroB.Sc, Molecular Biology, B.Sc, Molecular Biology at UERJ
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (17)
binning10
stream9
optimization8
batch-processing8
data-engineer8
feature-selection8
streaming-data8
feature-extraction8
python7
sklearn6
feature-engineering6
machine-learning5
audio-files5
data-science4
scikit-learn4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GabrielSGoncalves/databricks_apache_spark_associate_certificate_study
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Repository with resources used for preparation to Databricks Certified Associate Developer - Apache Spark
Contributions:16 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
GabrielSGoncalves/optbinning_tutorial
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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