Katherine Finn Zander

Katherine Finn Zander

Data Engineer: production & scale at TOTVS - RD Station

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Data Engineer with experience building and maintaining scalable cloud-native data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and modern analytics architectures across AWS and GCP environments. I have strong expertise in Python, Apache Airflow, DBT, Terraform, SQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and CI/CD workflows, supporting business-critical data operations and analytics initiatives.
Experience
Data Engineer: production & scale

TOTVS - RD Station

January 2025 - Present

Current

- Designed and maintained scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, Apache Airflow, DBT, BigQuery, Hive, and NiFi across cloud and legacy environments. - Monitored, troubleshot, and optimized critical data pipelines, handling ingestion failures, orchestration issues, and workflow reliability improvements. - Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to implement scalable data solutions.

Data Engineer: architecture & infrastructure

Hype Empreendimentos

March 2023 - December 2024

- Contributed to the migration of on-premises architectures into AWS cloud-native data platforms. - Developed ETL pipelines using Python, Pandas, DuckDB, AWS Lambda, and Apache Airflow. - Worked with Terraform, Docker, and GitHub Actions to support infrastructure provisioning.

Data Analyst → Data Engineer: entry & transition

Fluency Academy

November 2021 - October 2022

- Developed and maintained ETL pipelines supporting business, product, and operational analytics initiatives. - Contributed to database improvements and workflow automation. - Built dashboards and analytical reports using Power BI and Metabase.

Fellowship | Scholarship

Processing Foundation

June 2021 - December 2021

- Collaborated with an international open-source community to improve technical documentation. - Worked in a distributed and collaborative international environment.

Education
Certificate Program

Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence - I2A2

January 2021 - December 2022

Field: Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Analytics

Certificate Program

Dataquest

January 2021 - December 2021

Field: Data Science

Master's degree

Federal University of Paraná

January 2013 - December 2015

Field: Policies for Education

Postgraduate Program

University of São Paulo x University of Michigan

January 2013 - December 2013

Field: Comparative Federalism

Technical Degree

International Academy of Electronic Music - AIMEC

January 2013 - December 2013

Field: Music Production

Bachelor’s degree

Federal University of Paraná

January 2007 - December 2011

Field: Law

Skills
Advanced
Apache Airflow AWS BigQuery CI/CD workflows DBT GCP PostgreSQL Python SQL Terraform
Intermediate
Docker GitHub Actions
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