Lincoln Macêdo
Resume

Lincoln Macêdo

Senior Data Engineer · Uberlândia, Brazil

Senior Data Engineer with 5+ years building ELT pipelines and lakehouse data products on Databricks and Google Cloud (BigQuery). Own a GA4 data product processing up to 1.86B events/month with PySpark, Delta Live Tables and Unity Catalog. Strong in Python, SQL, data modeling and cost optimization. Analytics engineering background, with 60+ dashboards delivered for e-commerce, pharma and retail clients.

Technical Skills

Languages
PythonSQLPySpark
Data Platforms
Apache SparkDatabricks (Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog, Workflows)Google BigQuery
Cloud
GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Storage)AWS (S3, DMS, VPC)Azure Databricks
Data Engineering
ETL/ELTData PipelinesData LakehouseMedallion ArchitectureData ModelingData WarehousingData GovernanceCDCData Quality
BI & Analytics
Power BITableauLooker StudioGA4Adobe AnalyticsContentsquareHotjarGoogle AdsSupermetrics
Tools & Practices
Git (GitHub, Bitbucket)CI/CD (GitHub Actions)JiraAgile (Scrum, Kanban)

Experience

Senior Data Engineer · Compass.uol

Sep 2024 – Present

Remote, Brazil

  • ·Own a GA4 behavioral data product (web + app) processing 800M–1.86B events/month with PySpark and Delta Live Tables (DLT), validating data quality on every table.
  • ·Designed a 25+ table Delta Lake model (sessions, checkout, revenue, attribution) with governance (CDF, deletion vectors, row tracking) and Unity Catalog, orchestrated by Databricks Workflows and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
  • ·Optimized BigQuery data models with partitioning, clustering and materialized views, improving query performance and reducing compute costs.
  • ·Improved processing efficiency by ~33% and cut infrastructure costs by 10%+ through Spark job optimization, cluster tuning and instance right-sizing.
  • ·Led an AWS migration POC ingesting ~1.5 TB via AWS DMS (CDC), validating 20%+ cost savings versus the incumbent solution.

Data Engineer · W3haus

Nov 2023 – Sep 2024

Remote, Brazil

  • ·Led data migrations from Google Sheets to BigQuery for 4 clients, redesigning ELT pipelines with Python and SQL to improve reliability and query performance.
  • ·Moved ~30% of projects fully to BigQuery, removing external API dependencies and saving USD 4,500+/year in subscription costs.
  • ·Implemented medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold) and integrated GA4, Google Ads, X, Spotify and Kwai data into centralized BigQuery warehouses.
  • ·Built 15+ Power BI and Looker Studio dashboards for enterprise brands such as Petrobras, Riachuelo and Boticário.

Data Analyst · iDigital

Jun 2021 – Oct 2023

Remote, Brazil

  • ·Built and maintained GCP data pipelines (BigQuery, Cloud Storage) and Supermetrics ETL/ELT integrations for 16 enterprise clients, reducing manual work.
  • ·Developed 40+ dashboards in Power BI, Looker Studio and Tableau, replacing 70%+ of PowerPoint-based reporting.
  • ·Analyzed 400+ marketing campaigns and UX behavior (Contentsquare, Hotjar) for clients such as AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Novartis and Sanofi.

Projects

Education

Uniube

Postgraduate Degree in Data Science and Big Data Analytics

2022 – 2023

UNOPAR

Associate's Degree in Digital Marketing

2020 – 2021

UNOPAR

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

2018 – 2021
Languages
Portuguese (Native) · English (Professional Working (B2)) · Spanish (Professional Working (B2))
Certifications
Oracle Fusion AI Agent Studio Certified Foundations Associate · Oracle · Sep 2025