jhonlucas
Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable data platforms in crypto, DeFi, and CEX environments. Specialized in large-scale data ingestion, reconciliation systems, and blockchain analytics. Proven leader in designing data architectures, optimizing pipelines, and delivering data products for high-growth startups. Brings strong critical analysis skills to design scalable architectures, optimize pipelines, and solve complex data problems. Passionate about Web3 infrastructure, on-chain data, and operational excellence.
Experience: 8 years
Yearly salary: $170,000
Hourly rate: $80
Nationality: 🇧🇷 Brazil
Residency: 🇧🇷 Brazil
Experience
Blockchain Data Engineer
OpenBlock Labs (DeFi Focus) 2024 - 2025
Owned the design and implementation of the entire data platform, improving scalability, cost efficiency, and delivery speed. Built ingestion pipelines from blockchain nodes, APIs, and third-party providers into a cloud data lakehouse using AWS and Iceberg. Developed a Data Pipeline Factory that automated pipeline scaffolding, Airflow DAG generation, YAML-based config management, and CI/CD deployment with Docker, ECS, and Terraform - reducing delivery time from 1 month to 1-2 weeks. Deployed a production-grade Data API with a caching layer, enabling clients to handle 3K+ requests per day. This API powered client applications and dashboards. Designed a consumer data layer using Athena for processing and PostgreSQL for low-latency API consumption. Developed a ClickHouse-based analytical database to support a Text-to-SQL product, allowing users to run natural language queries over blockchain datasets. Built a DBT-based transformation pipeline for cross-chain analytics (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Linea, Eigenlayer) integrating Athena, Snowflake, and BigQuery.
Senior Blockchain Data Engineer
Spectral Finance 2022 - 2024
Built ETL pipelines for DeFi credit scoring using real-time blockchain data. Launched Ethereum nodes, eliminating third-party API dependencies. Reduced AWS costs by 30% with IaC and service optimization. Managed a lakehouse enabling direct data consumption by DS teams. Enhanced pipeline performance and resource usage by 50%. Tech stack: AWS Athena, ECS, DocumentDB, Docker, Terraform, DBT.
Staff Data Engineer - Data Platform Chapter Lead
Olist 2020 - 2022
Led the Data Platform team, improving workflows and reducing delivery times. Mentored 12 engineers; advanced 3 from junior to mid-level within a year. Built and maintained data analytics platforms improving data deployment. Optimized pipelines reducing some processes from 15 hours to 30 minutes.
Data Analyst & IT Infrastructure
Flávio's Calçados 2019 - 2024
Built ML models for customer segmentation and reduced stockouts by 20%. Managed Oracle databases, Linux/Windows servers, and implemented backup routines. Developed ETL pipelines for sales, inventory, and business analytics.
Skills
analyst
api
aws
big-data
blockchain
ci-cd
community-manager
computer-science
data-science
data-viz
dataops
dba
defi
docker
ethereum
full-time
git
grafana
graphql
hadoop
kubernetes
machine-learning
node
nosql
open-source
part-time
postgres
python
sql
tech-lead
english
portuguese