António
From United Kingdom (UTC+1)
António – Python, AWS, ETL
António is a Senior Data Architect with extensive experience designing and modernizing data platforms, building scalable data pipelines, and integrating AI capabilities into production systems. His expertise spans AWS, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, dbt, Python, and Neo4j, with a strong focus on data architecture, workflow orchestration, and reliable system delivery. He combines hands-on engineering experience with architectural ownership, pragmatic technical decision-making, and effective stakeholder communication. António has led multidisciplinary engineering teams and delivered solutions across data analytics, AI-powered applications, and cloud infrastructure.
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CTO and Head of Engineering (Hands‑on)
An AI-powered B2B procurement platform that automates supplier and product matching, purchasing workflows, and business interactions through WhatsApp and SMS. The solution combines conversational AI agents, multi-agent orchestration, and graph-based retrieval to support complex procurement processes, with a web application for managing procurement workflows.
- Architected and delivered a production AI-powered procurement platform, enabling automated B2B interactions through WhatsApp and SMS;
- Designed and implemented multi-agent orchestration using Semantic Kernel, GPT-4, RAG, and tool calling to automate complex procurement workflows;
- Designed and optimized Neo4j knowledge graph models and Cypher queries to support intelligent supplier and product matching;
- Implemented GraphRAG with Neo4j vector and full-text indexes, combining semantic and lexical search for improved entity resolution;
- Developed and deployed a Vue 3 single-page application and Web APIs, integrating an AI chatbot into procurement workflows;
- Built and maintained cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, incorporating disaster recovery controls.
Principal Data Scientist & Engineer
An AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform supporting device manufacturing certification by processing regulatory standards, requirements, and testing strategies. The solution uses LLM-based data annotation and validation to support regulatory information processing, with a focus on data quality, consistency, and reliability.
- Developed data engineering components for an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform supporting device manufacturing certification;
- Designed and implemented an automated quality monitoring system for LLM-generated annotations using Python and hexagonal architecture;
- Built scoring and validation pipelines to evaluate AI-generated annotations against reviewed reports and identify quality discrepancies;
- Defined and implemented a new data architecture covering data ingestion, transformation, governance, and modelling to support regulatory intelligence workflows.
Head of Engineering
A data analytics and decision intelligence platform designed to help businesses make data-driven decisions and improve performance. The engineering work focused on modernizing legacy data infrastructure, establishing scalable data processing workflows, and improving the reliability and maintainability of the company's analytics ecosystem.
- Led Data Engineering, ML Engineering, and DevOps functions, restructuring engineering teams into multidisciplinary squads to improve collaboration and delivery;
- Proposed and drove the adoption of dbt, replacing legacy SQL scripts running on Talend with modern data transformation workflows using Snowflake and dbt;
- Directed the migration of legacy data infrastructure to a medallion architecture built on Snowflake, Apache Airflow, and dbt;
- Established engineering delivery standards and mentored engineers and team leads on code quality, technical practices, and execution.
Senior Data Engineer & Technical Architect
A rail travel retail platform that enables passengers to purchase affordable ticket upgrades through a mobile application. The platform's data infrastructure supports real-time analytics, pricing and inventory forecasting, and reporting for business partners. The engineering work focused on building scalable cloud data pipelines, modernizing infrastructure, and enabling data-driven decision-making.
- Designed and implemented a cloud-based data lake and warehouse architecture on AWS using Amazon S3, Athena, and Redshift;
- Developed and orchestrated large-scale Python ELT workloads using Apache Airflow and Kubernetes Operator;
- Built a real-time analytics platform using Apache NiFi, Amazon SQS/SNS, and Snowflake, delivering the solution within three months;
- Introduced an event-driven architecture with a centralized event taxonomy to standardize data collection across frontend and backend systems;
- Led Kubernetes adoption using Amazon EKS and Infrastructure as Code, deploying a highly available Airflow environment with Helm, disaster recovery capabilities, and CI/CD pipelines;
- Implemented data anonymization mechanisms for ELT pipelines processing personally identifiable information (PII) and indirectly identifying data;
- Developed ML training pipelines for pricing and inventory forecasting using Apache Airflow and AWS Batch, with DynamoDB supporting model output delivery;
- Designed and implemented automated reporting services, reducing partner integration effort by approximately 90%.