Madhava Carrillo Cervera

Data Engineer & Project Manager

About Me

My extensive experience in several start-ups has sharpened my ability to develop efficient and innovative solutions to complex technical challenges. Throughout my career, I have successfully designed and implemented several data platforms for various companies, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices, serving developers, analysts and data scientists.

I'm self-motivated and results-oriented, delivering efficient data solutions through a deep understanding of client requirements and a commitment to architectural and code quality.

Professional Experience

Engineering Manager

Belvo

Nov 2022 – Present

  • Led the team to create the data platform for analytical and ML workflows
  • Built self-service serverless Data Lake handling tens of terabytes of data
  • Created internal products for serving accurate and timely data
EMR EMR Studio Spark Python Terraform AWS DMS Airflow Dagster DBT

Senior Data Engineer

Qogita

Aug 2022 – Nov 2022

  • Hired and managed the new data platform team
  • Architected the data solution
Data Mesh MongoDB Snowflake AWS Airflow

Senior Data Engineer

Glovo

April 2021 – May 2022

  • Architected and developed data tools for the data mesh architecture
EMR Spark Notebooks APIs Luigi Trino/Starburst Terraform AWS

Senior Big Data Engineer

Casumo

March 2016 – April 2021

  • Created and led the data engineering team
  • Architected the big data platform on the cloud
AWS DynamoDB DMS Sagemaker Kinesis EMR Kubernetes Redshift Kafka Hudi

Big Data Engineer

Expedia

February 2015 – March 2016

  • Migrated Hotels.com Hadoop and Spark jobs to AWS cloud
Hadoop Spark AWS

Head of Development

Beabloo

September 2008 – July 2014

  • First developer to join, grew and led the backend team to 12 developers
  • Led the team through series A investment

Key Skills

Big Data Technologies

  • Apache Spark
  • Hadoop
  • MapReduce
  • MongoDB
  • Kafka
  • Hudi

Cloud Computing

  • AWS (EMR, S3, Redshift, Lambda)
  • DynamoDB
  • DMS
  • Sagemaker
  • Kinesis
  • Kubernetes

Data Engineering

  • Data Mesh Architecture
  • Data Lake/Lakehouse
  • ETL/ELT Pipelines
  • Airflow
  • Dagster
  • DBT
  • Apache Iceberg

Programming & Tools

  • Python
  • Scala
  • SQL
  • Terraform
  • Great Expectations
  • IaC

Education & Certifications

Global Engineering Leadership Program

IE Business School, UC Berkeley, HKUST

2013

Master in Telecommunications Engineering

Pompeu Fabra University

2004 - 2010

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

2012

CS105x: Introduction to Apache Spark

Berkeley - edX

2016

CS120x: Distributed Machine Learning with Apache Spark

Berkeley - edX

2016

Infrastructure Automation With Terraform

Udemy

2021

Languages

Spanish

Native

Catalan

Native

English

Professional working proficiency

Interests

I mix my interest in new technologies with my passion for ancient Indian mythology and philosophy, music, culture, and Yoga. One of my favorite activities is playing Khol, an ancient Indian drum. I have also been a Greenpeace member since 2007 and I'm a lifelong vegetarian.