I’m a senior data engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience designing and building scalable data platforms. I enjoy turning complex data challenges into robust, maintainable solutions that scale with business needs. I bring deep expertise in GCP and AWS, including BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Airflow, Spark and Hadoop. I excel in performance tuning, cost optimization, real-time data streaming, and building practical tooling for data governance and reliability. I’m collaborative, curious, and eager to mentor teammates on best practices in data engineering and governance.

Leonardo Bulhoes

I’m a senior data engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience designing and building scalable data platforms. I enjoy turning complex data challenges into robust, maintainable solutions that scale with business needs. I bring deep expertise in GCP and AWS, including BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Airflow, Spark and Hadoop. I excel in performance tuning, cost optimization, real-time data streaming, and building practical tooling for data governance and reliability. I’m collaborative, curious, and eager to mentor teammates on best practices in data engineering and governance.

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I’m a senior data engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience designing and building scalable data platforms. I enjoy turning complex data challenges into robust, maintainable solutions that scale with business needs. I bring deep expertise in GCP and AWS, including BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Airflow, Spark and Hadoop. I excel in performance tuning, cost optimization, real-time data streaming, and building practical tooling for data governance and reliability. I’m collaborative, curious, and eager to mentor teammates on best practices in data engineering and governance.

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Language

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Work Experience

Technology Manager - Data Engineering & Governance at Just Eat Takeaway / Skip The Dishes
September 1, 2022 - Present
Led the global data technology strategy and managed a distributed team of engineers across Canada, Australia, and Europe, focusing on data platform reliability, governance tooling, and scalable, self-serve data solutions. Collaborated with senior leadership to align initiatives with business objectives and delivered governance and architecture enhancements for petabyte-scale data assets.
Technology Manager - Data Engineering at Just Eat Takeaway / Skip The Dishes
January 1, 2020 - September 30, 2022
Managed up to 10 data engineers responsible for core datasets; oversaw global data pipelines; contributed to merger integration consolidating AWS pipelines into GCP; partnered with stakeholders to define roadmap and optimize team organization for scalable growth.
Senior Data Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway / Skip The Dishes
November 1, 2018 - January 31, 2020
Developed and supported the global Data Warehouse by consolidating data from multiple international group companies into a single EDW schema; modernized systems by migrating from Redshift to GCP BigQuery and Airflow; applied Kimball dimensional modeling to optimize reporting.
Solutions Architect at Movility
August 1, 2017 - September 30, 2018
Defined and implemented 100% cloud-based architectures on AWS and Azure for customer solutions; coordinated development teams and implemented solutions using .NET, Angular, Node, and PHP.
System Analyst at Avanade
January 1, 2016 - March 31, 2017
Vale Mining: Coordinated a team of 8 developers to build an e-Marketplace platform, integrating suppliers, logistics, and invoicing to replace legacy software. CPFL Energy: Rebuilt customer relationship sites using WebAPI to provide data to Angular Single Page Applications, deployed on PhoneGap.
Team Leader at IT Lab
July 1, 2007 - December 31, 2016
Led multiple simultaneous projects for institutional clients, including trading platforms for stock lending, government securities, and derivatives clearing. Led the development of a credit agreement management system to control setup, creation, storage, and approval across the country.
Systems Analyst / Developer at Forum Access
December 1, 1999 - June 30, 2007
Clients included Santander (Credit Loan operations) and Syngenta (ERP sales forecasting and inventory control).
Senior Data Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway / Skip The Dishes
September 1, 2022 - Present
Optimized petabyte-scale queries in BigQuery, reducing latency and lowering costs. Built and deployed internal governance tools using Data Hub with automated schema validation and data lineage tracking. Managed GCP billing and implemented resource-tagging policies to drive cost reductions across engineering teams. Implemented real-time data pipelines using Kafka and Pub/Sub to monitor platform reliability.
Technology Manager (Hands-on) - Data Engineering at Just Eat Takeaway / Skip The Dishes
January 1, 2020 - September 1, 2022
Pipeline Execution: Managed core global pipelines ensuring 99.9% availability via Airflow and Jenkins automated deployments. Cloud Migration: Migrated complex workflows from AWS (Redshift/Glue) to GCP (BigQuery). Big Data Processing: Leveraged Spark and Hadoop to process large-scale historical datasets for logistics optimization.
Solution Architect at Mobility
January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2018
Designed and deployed cloud-native data architectures on AWS and Azure.
Systems Analyst at Avanade
January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2017
Engineered backend integrations and web APIs for enterprise-scale platforms.

Education

Computer Science (Incomplete) at College Senac
January 11, 2030 - December 17, 2025
Data Processing (Technical High School) at Eniac Technical High School
January 11, 2030 - December 17, 2025
Computer Science (Incomplete) at Senac College - Data Processing (Technical High School)
January 11, 2030 - January 11, 2026

Qualifications

TOGAF Foundation - Enterprise Architecture Framework
January 11, 2030 - December 17, 2025
Scrum Fundamentals Certified
January 11, 2030 - December 17, 2025
Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
January 11, 2030 - January 11, 2026
TOGAF Foundation - Enterprise Architecture Framework
January 11, 2030 - January 11, 2026
Scrum Fundamentals Certified
January 11, 2030 - January 11, 2026

Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Retail