Summary
Nícolas De Araujo is a Staff Platform Engineer focused on data platforms, with a decade of experience building resilient, cloud-native data infrastructure and enabling organizations to become data-driven. He combines hands-on engineering across Python, SQL, Terraform, Airflow, Spark/Beam and BigQuery with pragmatic product thinking and team leadership, having driven major latency and uptime improvements in prior roles. At Mollie he helps simplify financial services by evolving the data platform through incremental, high-impact changes and strong observability and governance practices. His background spans founding startups, CTO responsibilities and volunteer leadership in crisis-response data teams, reflecting a builder’s mindset and a knack for translating ambiguous problems into operational systems. Colleagues describe him as a practical generalist who prefers shipping iterative platform improvements that directly reduce friction for downstream teams.
10 years of coding experience