
Data Engineer
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Driven and enthusiastic Data Engineer. Passionate and a fast learner, always looking to master new skills and tools. Self-starter and adaptable, continuously gaining experience through online certifications and personal projects. Previous professional background in classical music performance and education.
March 2023 - Present Personal projects
DB Workbench: [https://github.com/andretempera/db-workbench] A solo dev project for a local, modular, isolated database playground: 1) Configured 11 databases (File-based, SQL and NoSQL) containerized with Docker; 2) Built a Makefile abstraction layer to simplify database setup, access and reset; 3) Developed automatic initialization scripts with pre-populated test data; 4) Integrated CLI, GUI and SDK with persistent data between access modes; 5) Wrote detailed documentation and cheatsheets for rapid onboarding and troubleshooting.
Microsoft Power BI Course Capstone Project: A seven step assignment involving: 1) Preparing Excel Data; 2) Configuring data sources; 3) Designing and developing a data model; 4) Configuring Aggregations using DAX; 5) Creating sales and profit Reports; 6) Creating an executive Dashboard; and 7) Configuring Alerts and Subscriptions.
AWS Course Capstone POC: Three POC projects exploring different architectures: 1) EC2 hosting an app, connected to S3 and DynamoDB, with ALB and Auto-Scaling; 2) API Gateway to place database entries on DynamoDB through SQS and Lambda, and a second Lambda function to trigger SNS and send notification emails; 3) API Gateway ingests clickstream data, sends to Kinesis through Lambda, data is stored in S3, queried in Athena, and visualized in QuickSight.
IBM Data Engineering Course Capstone Project: A six step assignment involving: 1) Designing and populating a MySQL OLTP database and exporting data using a bash script; 2) Importing, querying and exporting data from MongoDB; 3) Designing and creating the schema for a data warehouse using PostgreSQL/ERD Tool, load data and write aggregation queries; 4) Designing a reporting dashboard using IBM Cognos Analytics; 5) Automating an ETL sync up between staging and production data warehouses, using MySQL, Db2, Python and Airflow; 6) Performing Big Data analytic queries and loading a pretrained forecasting model using Spark.
September 2006 – October 2022 Guitar Teacher and Musician
More than fifteen years of experience as a classical musician, performing in solo and in ensemble settings, as well as individually teaching hundreds of students of all ages in several Music Schools and Conservatories, in Portugal and in the United States.
2026 LearnDataEngineering.com Associate Data Engineer
2025 Mastering Azure Databricks for Data Engineers • University of Michigan Python 3 Programming • Dataexpert.io Free Data Engineering Bootcamp
2024 Microsoft Azure Data Engineering Associate • Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst
2023 AWS Cloud Solutions Architect • DevOps on AWS • AWS Fundamentals • IBM Data Engineering •
IBM BI Foundations With SQL, ETL and Data Warehousing • IBM Data Warehouse Engineer •
IBM Data Engineering Foundations • Duke University Python, Bash and SQL Essentials for Data Engineering
2018 Ph.D. in Music and Musicology, Classical Guitar, Évora University
2011 Masters in Music, Classical Guitar, Évora University
2008 Bachelors in Music, Classical Guitar, Lisbon College of Music