Luan Maciel
Lead Data Engineer
Federal District, Brazil
Summary
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SeniorLuan Maciel is a Lead Data Engineer and entrepreneur with nearly a decade of international experience designing cloud-native data platforms and mentoring thousands of data professionals. He founded Brazil’s first Data Engineering community and the country’s first Portuguese Data Engineering YouTube channel, reaching over 800,000 people and delivering 20,000+ training hours. A 10+ year Microsoft MVP and the first Brazilian MVP for Apache Airflow and Databricks, he blends deep hands-on skills in Kafka, Spark/Databricks, Airflow, Kubernetes and multi-cloud architectures with strategic solution leadership. At Pythian he leads end-to-end platform delivery—connecting technical decisions to business outcomes—while running two EdTech companies that turn complex concepts into practical, job-ready skills. A frequent global speaker and course author, he quietly measures success by the number of students placed internationally and the communities he helps sustain.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (39)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
scheduler10
automation10
orchestration10
apache9
data-engineering9
data-pipelines9
workflow-engine9
elt9
airflow9
dag9
mlops9
etl9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
luanmorenomaciel/de-apache-spark
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Data Engineering com Apache Spark
Contributions:23 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
apache-sparkdata-engineering
daniellecd/ws-spark-lakehouse-na-pratica
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Construindo um Data Lakehouse com Delta e Iceberg na Prática com Apache Spark
Contributions:22 commits in 1 day
apache-sparkdata-lakehouse
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