Principal Data Architect, Devoteam
Aug, 2026 - Present
Data Architect with experience designing and scaling cloud-based data platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Skilled in data pipeline orchestration, ETL development, and data lakehouse/warehouse solutions. Adept at mentoring engineers, leading tool migrations, and setting platform-wide standards while maintaining a high-level architectural vision to align technology with business needs.
Principal Data Architect, Devoteam
Aug, 2026 - Present
Lead, Senior Data Engineer, Collibra
Apr, 2022 - Aug, 20264 years 4 months
Data Platform Design and Migration: Led the design and implementation of a new data platform to replace the no-code stack, guiding analysts in transitioning to dbt and adopting best practices.
Strategic Roadmap and Stakeholder Management: Co-developed a long-term roadmap for the Data Engineering team, aligning projects with company goals while respecting stakeholder priorities.
Hiring and Team Expansion: Conducted technical interviews and skill assessments resulting in the hire of new data engineers.
LLM-Powered Data Assistant: Led the development and deployment of a Streamlit web application integrated with a large language model, enabling business users to query and explore company data conversationally.
Data Quality Integration: Developed an Airflow provider for Collibra Data Quality, enabling seamless integration of quality checks into ETL processes and improving data accuracy.
Process Automation: Automated requirement-gathering processes, reducing response time by 40% and enhancing user support efficiency.
Pipeline Modernization: Led the migration of 50+ data pipelines to a new orchestration tool, enhancing processing speed and reliability.
Data Lake and Data Mesh: Brought in new data sources and standardized best practices, improving data accessibility and pipeline consistency.
Technical Leadership: Mentored junior engineers and conducted workshops to advance team expertise in data engineering best practices.
Data/Cloud Engineer Consultant, Lucy In The Cloud (Micropole)
Sep, 2019 - Mar, 20222 years 6 months
ETL and Data Lakehouse Development: Designed ETL solutions for a data lakehouse, empowering analysts with accessible, self-service data.
Serverless Solutions: Implemented serverless ETL workflows and pub/sub messaging, automating high-volume data processing.
Automation and DevOps: Built Jenkins pipelines for automated ETL deployments on AWS, ensuring reliable, scalable data integration.
Python
Scala
SQL
Bash
Rust
Golang
Claude Code
Opencode
Openrouter
Agentic Engineering
Spark
Airflow
dbt
dlt
Kafka
ETL
S3
GCS
Redshift
BigQuery
Snowflake
Databricks
AWS Glue/Athena
PostgreSQL
AWS
GCP
Azure
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
Business Engineering, M.S., Louvain School of Management (LSM)
Sep, 2017 - Jun, 2019
Business Engineering, B.S., Louvain School of Management (LSM)
Sep, 2014 - Jun, 2017
Data Monetization Strategy: Creating Value Through Data, MIT Sloan School of Management
Issued on: May 13, 2024
Astronomer Certification for Apache Airflow Fundamentals, Astronomer
Issued on: Feb 24, 2023
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft
Issued on: Jun 05, 2020
DVA - Certified Data Vault 2.0 Practitioner, Data Vault Alliance
Issued on: May 04, 2020
AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Amazon Web Services
Issued on: Nov 01, 2019