Allan Sene

Co-Founder & CTO at Dadosfera | Leading Brazil's Data & AI Platform

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

About

I am Allan Sene, a passionate and experienced data professional, developer, and entrepreneur. I co-founded two of the most influential data companies in Brazil: Dadosfera and Data Hackers. I have been working in tech since 2008, and I have a strong background in data engineering, data science, machine learning, big data, and cloud computing. At Dadosfera, I lead the design and development of data platform and AI solutions for large and innovative enterprises, such as Inter, WEG, Grupo Afya, and others. We are part of NVIDIA Inception, Google/Azure for Startups programs, and we have been recognized as a Top Linkedin startup, a top 10 company admired by data professionals, and AWS social impact partner for our voluntary project HealthLake. We help our clients achieve data-driven culture and digital transformation, focusing on innovation through data and building intelligent products. At Data Hackers, I contributed to the growth and empowerment of the data community in Latin America, by creating and sharing high-quality and free content about data topics, such as podcasts, blogs, newsletters, and courses. We have the largest podcast about data in the region, with over 500 thousand downloads, and the largest network of data professionals in Brazil, with over 80 thousand members. We also partner with the most cutting-edge companies in the data world, such as NVIDIA, Microsoft, Bain & Company, Tecton, and XP Inc.

Experience

  • Co-Founder & CTO at Dadosfera (anteriormente DataSprints)
    Feb 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

    ⇢ As the Founder and CTO, my main responsibility is to ensure that our projects are running as expected, aiming a high-quality standard from a theoretical and technical standpoint. We believe in Passion, so I have a personal commitment to keep all other Dadosferians motivated by one purpose: be the greatest Data Platform company in Brazil.

  • Co-Founder & Podcaster at Data Hackers
    Jan 2018 - Aug 2023 · 5 yrs 8 mos

    ⇢ Co-Founded the biggest Data Science, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning community in LATAM. Helping professionals to change their careers, spreading knowledge about Big Data, Analytics, and Data Science disciplines and best practices. ⇢ Most influential Forum, Blog, News, and Podcast about Data Science & Big Data in Latin America. ⇢ Partnership with the most innovative companies in the Data World: NVIDIA, Microsoft, Snowflake, Tecton, XP Inc and others.

  • Founder & Lead Data Engineer at Data Minders
    May 2018 - Jan 2019 · 9 mos

    ⇢ Designing, Developing, and Implementing Data Engineering and Analytics projects on several enterprises.

  • Data Engineer at MaxMilhas
    Aug 2017 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr

    ⇢ Member of the Data Science & Analytics Team. Main responsible for design, build and maintain all the necessary software architecture for data acquisition, cleansing, governance and democratic access/understanding. ⇢ Helping to develop agile processes and metrics/KPIs to base better decisions that make our product and services awesome! ⇢ Constructing the Data Democratization process to help stakeholders on better decision-making, together with a multi-disciplinary team: with Developers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Data/Business Analysts. ⇢ Using lots of Software Architecture/Systems Solutions like ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), Redis, Dremio, AWS EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, Kinesis and coding mostly in JS and Python.

  • Software Developer - Data Squad at Dito - Especialistas em Retenção
    Aug 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

    ⇢ Data Squad Member. Developing and managing distributed systems that handle 200k reqs/min and send more than 20kk notifications/day. Modeling, deploying and monitoring data pipelines, services and databases. ⇢ Mostly backend development using Ruby, AWS S3, Kinesis, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kubernetes, Google BigQuery.