Gil Cunha

Hello, my name is Gil Cunha and I'm from Guimarães, Portugal.
Having achieved a Master's Degree in Informatics Engineering at the University of Minho, I'm a person who enjoys working in a team and has good communication with his colleagues. I work hard to accomplish my objectives, always trying to give the best quality and efficiency to the projects/products of my company.

• EQF level 7:
  Informatics
  Engineering

• Portuguese
  English (C1)
  Spanish (A2)

• Java
  Python
  Scala
  JavaScript / TypeScript
  PHP
  

• Team-work oriented
  Good listener and communicator
  Responsible and hard worker

diconium (Volkswagen Group) - Cloud Engineer [ 01/07/2023 – Current ]
Developed a Python-based tool for CARIAD (Volkswagen Group) to streamline Agile Release Train (ART) services on Azure, automating workflows and data transfers. Played a key role in migrating datasets to a new platform within the Unified Data Environment (UDE) on Azure. Built scalable data pipelines with Kafka, Azure Functions, and CosmosDB for real-time processing and publishing.

Xpand IT - Big Data Engineer [ 26/09/2021 – 23/06/2023 ]
Developed cloud-based applications using Azure technologies to manage ETL processes for analyzing and improving marketing campaigns. Built and maintained a CDC framework to monitor data sources, detect changes, and send events to Kafka topics or SingleStore tables. Focused on scalable and efficient data workflows.

Bsolus - Software Engineer [ 23/11/2019 – 23/09/2021 ]
Developed a recommendation system and performed data analysis for e-commerce platforms using PHP and MySQL. Maintained platforms for brands like Grupo Nabeiro - Delta Cafés and Super Bock Group. Built a Marketing Automation system with NestJS, BPMN 2.0, and MongoDB.

• Conference paper: "Improving Performance of Recommendation System Architecture [2020]"
• 21st International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2020)
• Pixels Camp 2017 (link)
• Google HashCode 2017 (link)
• Web Summit 2016 (link)