Rodrigo Chagas
EST. 2005 · BH/BR · UTC−3

Senior Data & AI Engineer · Solutions Architect

Twenty years of data engineering, compounded by AI.

I started building data warehouses in 2005, spent over a decade at IBM leading BI platforms for global manufacturers, and then did something most enterprise data people never do: I started shipping complete products alone, from database schema to production UI.

Today I own BI and data architecture for a US financial services client. Recent work: a new investments data warehouse fed by automated Python integrations, and core data models redesigned to cut query execution time by up to 80%. LLMs run through my entire development cycle.

20+

years of data engineering

80%

query time cut by data model redesign

~10×

lower sending cost vs. Mailchimp

150

ETL packages in FIAT's warehouse

90

person software factory led

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Path

2025 — now

Senior Data & AI Engineer Lead

Technical owner of BI and data architecture for a US financial services client: new investments data warehouse, automated custodian-bank API integrations in Python, Power BI at executive level.

2020 — 2025

Founder & Principal Engineer, product studio

Designed, built, and operated complete products solo: an email marketing platform, a GoPro telemetry desktop app, and an Open Banking dashboard.

2008 — 2020

IBM: BI Team Lead, then Delivery Manager

Built FIAT's data warehouse (150 ETL packages, 14 cubes, 150 reports), then led a 90-person software factory to CMMI Level 5 recertification.

2007 — 2014

Microsoft Certified Trainer

Taught SQL Server and Microsoft BI (SSRS, SSIS, SSAS) for six years, alongside full-time engineering work at BHS and IBM.

2005 — 2008

BI Engineer, BHS

Data warehouses across finance, education, and industry; founded and mentored the company's six-person BI team.

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Small, useful AI-built tools I ship fast and use daily. New entries land here as they are built.

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Beyond the keyboard: married to Carlinha, father of three, into tech, sports, books, and Logosofia. I also founded the Associação Angelman Brasil in honor of my daughter Isabela.