Gustavo Santos

Project Data Manager, 06/2023 to current

Toyota Motor Europe, Brussels, Belgium

• Leading a team through a strategic transformation, lead the transition to Agile and strict Data Governance policies during a migration from Azure to AWS/Snowflake. Orchestrated workshops, aligned Agile practices with Data Governance principles, and meticulously managed the migration to ensure operational continuity in collaboration with key IT stakeholders, including enterprise architects, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and application teams. Established a dedicated Data Governance team, developed a comprehensive data catalog with Collibra. Focused on enhancing metadata management to ensure the consistency, accuracy, and discoverability of data assets, implementing stringent data quality rules and metadata standards. This initiative resulted in enhanced project delivery efficiency, successful platform migration within budget and timeline, and a significant improvement in data quality and reliability, underscoring the leadership in driving technological advancements and governance excellence.

Data Engineer, 06/2021 to 06/2023

KBC – Leuven, Belgium

• As the Lead Data Engineer for the blockchain project Kate Coin, serving over 1.8 million clients, spearheaded the development of scalable data pipelines, managing daily processing of over 60 Terabytes. Delivered robust, scalable ETL solutions, emphasizing reusability and efficiency. Role involved driving the adherence to data engineering standards through collaborative reviews and mentoring junior engineers on best practices, documentation, and deployment. Documented the pipeline architecture and led training sessions for the customer's data team on Agile and SAFe methodologies, ensuring alignment with continuous improvement practices for data governance. This leadership not only advanced data processing capabilities but also fostered a culture of excellence and collaboration within the team

Key Achievement: Rework the most important pipelines in Kate that receive over 10 Terabytes daily, and improved readability but drying the code in more than 80% and increasing processing speed by over 120%

Business Intelligence Analyst, 03/2020 to 06/2021

Louis Delhaize – Brussels, Belgium

• Develop Power BI intelligence-sharing dashboards, providing company-wide access to collected data
• Synthesize current business intelligence data to produce reports and polished presentations, highlighting findings, and recommending changes
• Draft strategic business intelligence roadmap, complete with data governance policies and tactical information safeguards
• Map current business and operational processes and recommended areas for improvement

Key Achievement: Based on predictive analyses and customer segmentation, made a study allowing the company to change more than 1000 products in the stores increasing the profit margin by 11%.

Data Analyst, 09/2019 to 03/2020

E-commerce Platform – Belgium

• Create Python pipelines to automate invoices verification
• Create and manage marketing campaigns
• Manage a group of 8 persons and 10 online stores simultaneously
• Set up and improved accounting systems and processes to meet business needs and maximize the effectiveness of operations.
• Deliver updates to stakeholders based on analytics

Key Achievement: Decrease the invoice verification time by more than 90%.

Parliamentary Assistant, 03/2016 to 06/2019

City Council – Franca, Brazil

• Explained technical information in clear terms to non-technical individuals to promote better understanding.
• Manage and supervise public projects.
• Create and manage deals between government, population, and business.
• Responsible for communication enhancing political and civil support.

Key Achievement: Successful political campaign even with the political party losing more than 50% of the votes.