António – Python, AWS, ETL, experts in Lemon.io

António

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Data Architect|Senior

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.

14 years of commercial experience in
Business intelligence
Cloud computing
Consulting services
Data analytics
Manufacturing
Main technologies
Python
5.5 years
AWS
5 years
ETL
5.5 years
Airflow
4.5 years
Solution architecture
1 year
Data Modeling
1 year
Additional skills
JavaScript
Typescript
Terraform
OpenAI
Neo4j
RAG
LangChain
SQL
LLM
Direct hire
Possible
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Experience Highlights

CTO and Head of Engineering (Hands‑on)
Dec 2024 - Apr 20261 year 3 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
Python
SQL
JavaScript
Typescript
Vue.js
Neo4j
OpenAI
GPT-4
RAG
LangChain
Principal Data Scientist & Engineer
Jul 2024 - Nov 20243 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Python
LLM
Data annotation
Head of Engineering
Jun 2023 - Jul 20241 year 1 month
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
DBT
Snowflake
Apache Airflow
DevOps
SQL
Senior Data Engineer & Technical Architect
Nov 2019 - May 20233 years 6 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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%.
Project Tech stack:
AWS
Amazon S3
Redshift
Python
ETL
Airflow
Kubernetes
Helm
DynamoDB
Snowflake
Apache Hadoop
Apache Spark
Amazon SQS
Amazon SNS
CI
CD

Education

2011
Technological Physics Engineering
Master of Science - MS

Languages

Portuguese
Advanced
Spanish
Upper-intermediate
French
Intermediate
Italian
Intermediate
Chinese
Advanced
English
Advanced

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