Daniel Chaves

Daniel Chaves

Delivery Manager & Data Engineer

Leading enterprise data initiatives with 6 years of experience delivering AI/ML solutions and managing cross-functional teams of 30+ professionals.

Specializing in modern data stack implementations with Python, SQL, dbt, Airflow, Snowflake and cloud platforms.

Data Platform Architecture & Engineering
AI/ML Solutions & Data Products
Delivery Management & Team Leadership
Modern Data Stack (dbt, Airflow, Snowflake)
Florianópolis, Brazil · Remote

Featured Project

A highlight of my recent technical work and architectural decisions.

Technical Expertise

A comprehensive overview of my technical skills and technology stack.

Project Management Tools

Project ProfessionalProject OnlineAzure DevOpsJira Cloud

Programming Languages

PythonSQLNoSQL

Data Engineering

dbtAirflowDagsterSparkKafkaETL/ELT

Cloud Platforms

AWSGCPAzure

Databases

SnowflakeBigQueryPostgreSQLMySQLDuckDB

Data Visualization

Power BITableauLookerStreamlit

AI/ML

Machine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchScikit-learn

DevOps

DockerTerraformGit

Extensive experience designing and overseeing modern data platforms in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), including data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts for enterprise clients.

Proven track record leading legacy data system migrations to modern architectures, with robust data governance frameworks ensuring data quality, compliance, and reliability.

Deep expertise in data platform tooling — dbt, Dagster, Airflow, Snowflake, and Databricks — spanning both hands-on engineering and delivery leadership across 10+ end-to-end engagements.

Strong background in data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, and pipeline development, ensuring efficient data flow and transformation at scale.

Engagement ownership across enterprise accounts in LATAM and EMEA, driving value delivery, client satisfaction, and contract renewals in pharmaceutical and technology sectors.

Executive stakeholder management and strategic consulting — translating business needs into multi-quarter delivery roadmaps and advising C-level and senior stakeholders.

Portfolio and resource management at scale, including P&L ownership, engagement economics, and team scaling from startup to 30+ FTE delivery organizations.

Cross-cultural delivery leadership across LATAM and EMEA, with hybrid agile and predictive methodologies, and risk and escalation management for complex enterprise programs.

Portuguese (Native)English (Fluent)Spanish (Intermediate)

All Projects

Data engineering and analytics projects showcasing modern data stack implementations.

Program ManagementSnowflakedbtTableau+3

Data Warehouse Modernization Program

18-month fixed-fee program migrating a legacy SQL Server data warehouse to Snowflake, dbt, and Tableau — governed by formal change control, contractual gateways, and three-tier stakeholder management.

Project ManagementScrum + KanbanModern Data StackData Lake+3

Data Intelligence Platform Build

A 12-month engagement to take a mid-market trading company from scattered operational systems to a unified data platform — Data Lake, Data Warehouse, BI, and predictive models, built from scratch with a hybrid agile planning model.

AWSPythonAirflowDuckDB+5

Spotify ELT Pipeline with AWS, Airflow and dbt

End-to-end ELT data lake pulling Spotify's global playlist data through a 4-stage medallion architecture on AWS S3, orchestrated by Airflow and transformed with dbt — delivered to Power BI dashboards.

dbtBigQuerySQLPython+1

Adventure Works Data Pipeline with dbt and BigQuery

Analytics engineering certification project — a three-layer dbt pipeline (staging, intermediate, marts) transforming 64 SAP source tables into analytics-ready dimensional models on BigQuery.

dbtBigQueryPythonPydantic+3

E-commerce ETL Pipeline with BigQuery and DuckDB

Python ETL pipeline that extracts e-commerce data from BigQuery public datasets, validates it with Pydantic, loads it into DuckDB, and sinks to multiple destinations — local CSV, Amazon S3, and MotherDuck.