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Solutions Architect - Data, Cloud & AI

Lisbon, Portugal
Worldwide
MSc, Big Data Analytics & Engineering
Lisbon, Portugal
Worldwide
MSc, Big Data Analytics & Engineering

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About me

Solutions architect and data engineer, six years across Azure, GCP and AWS. Built the ETL behind national-scale telecom analytics at Accenture, cutting end-to-end processing time by about 85%. Now run Main Abstraction, delivering data platforms, retrieval systems and on-chain products.

RAGJava (Programming Language)Agile LeadershipPython (Programming Language)Rust (Programming Language)React.jsReact Native
Data & Cloud Architecture
Expertise in designing and building data and cloud systems across Azure, GCP and AWS, including BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Redis and pipeline orchestration for enterprise clients.

AI & Retrieval Systems
Deep knowledge in RAG, embeddings and vector search, chunking, rank fusion, rerankers, evaluation harnesses, tracing, agent orchestration, MCP servers, and integration with Claude and OpenAI APIs.

Backend & Web Development
Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, SQL, Solidity, Rust, Node, FastAPI, React, Next.js and Prisma for building full-stack and on-chain products end to end.

ETL & Data Pipelines
Experience building ETL tools that generate and apply SQL transformations automatically, with scheduling, reprocessing and failure handling, reducing end-to-end processing time by approximately 85%.

Blockchain & On-Chain Development
Hands-on work with Solidity smart contracts, subgraph indexers, zkVM execution layers in Rust, AMM contracts, zkSync deployments and arbitrage bots for DeFi and on-chain settlement use cases.

Distributed Processing & Big Data
Academic and practical background in distributed processing using Spark, Kafka and Hadoop, as well as information retrieval techniques including ranking, embeddings, evaluation and ML statistics.

Mobile & Frontend Development
Development of mobile applications for Android and iOS using Flutter and Firebase, as well as frontend work with React and Next.js.

Team Leadership & Project Management
Experience hiring and leading engineering teams, managing planning, priorities and releases for multi-person projects, including a football score-prediction product with over 120,000 registered accounts.

Experience

Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2023

Languages

EnglishFluentPortugueseNative speakerSpanishGood

Project history

Solutions Architect & Founder

Main Abstraction
Builds AI, on-chain and full-stack products for clients end to end. Recent projects focus on retrieval and evaluation: search systems over large multilingual corpora, ETL and data pipelines, evaluation and observability tooling, and agent systems with MCP integrations. The largest project was a football score-prediction product with 120,000+ registered accounts and 3.2M+ predictions. Also includes on-chain work with zkVM execution layers in Rust and DeFi contracting in Solidity and TypeScript.

Big Data Engineer

Accenture
Spent two years inside a client delivery team on national-scale telecom data. Built a tool that generates and applies SQL queries automatically, plus scheduling, reprocessing and failure handling. End-to-end processing time fell by about 85%. Stack: Python, SQL, GCP, BigQuery, Azure, Docker, CI/CD.

Full-stack Developer, then Blockchain Engineer

Celfocus / Novabase
Started on full-stack product development in an Agile team using React and Java microservices. Moved to a second project with Novabase on the blockchain team: data pipelines and analytics on AWS and Azure over on-chain data, and client integrations in the energy sector including Energy Web.

Frontend Developer

MyWaiter
Built an in-venue ordering app for a Lisbon brewery, on Android and iOS, in Flutter and Firebase.

Certificates

Google Digital Cloud Leader

Google

2022


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