I start with the business problem, not the technology stack. I build the cloud data platforms companies run on, and I'm now extending that same foundation into the agentic systems running on top of it, across the wider company ecosystem.
Five-plus years turning business problems into reliable, production-grade data systems — across industry, utilities, and fintech.
I own data platforms end to end: architecture, ingestion, orchestration, CI/CD, and cost. My work sits where engineering rigour meets business impact — I partner closely with product, analysts, and stakeholders to ship data products people actually depend on.
Grounded in aerospace-engineering rigour, with shipped machine-learning foundations. The active focus: the data and infrastructure layer beneath LLM and agentic systems — retrieval pipelines, orchestration, and the observability that carries them from prototype to production.
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Impact at a glance
/ FINOPS
30%
Platform cost reduced through warehouse & workload optimization
/ SCALE
20+
Cloud data platforms deployed across business units
/ LEADERSHIP
4
Data engineers led as technical lead
/ TENURE
5+
Years across data-driven industries
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Experience
Agicap
Senior Data Engineer
Paris / Lisbon2023 — Present
Own business-critical data systems end to end — from scoping and architecture to implementation and production support — across batch and near-real-time workflows.
Led platform initiatives spanning CDC, orchestration, ingestion, CI/CD, and infrastructure security, lifting scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Cut platform costs by 30% through data-warehouse optimization, asset cleanup, workload tuning, and cost observability.
Partner with analysts, product, and business to ship robust data products, marts, alerts, and integrations for operational and decision-making use cases.
Veolia
Lead Data Engineer
Paris2021 — 2023
Spearheaded a Data-Platform-as-a-Service initiative, deploying 20+ cloud data platforms across Veolia's business units.
Designed and maintained platform infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for scalable, repeatable deployments.
Built transversal capabilities — alerting, connectors, usage dashboards — that raised reliability and adoption.
Managed a team of 4 engineers and advised stakeholders on architecture, workflow design, and data modeling.
AKKA Technologies
Data Architect
Toulouse2020 — 2021
Designed an Industry 4.0 big-data platform for industrial IoT, with batch and streaming in a lambda architecture (load-tested at ~1 MB/s).
Implemented real-time anomaly detection using supervised and unsupervised machine-learning methods.
Delivered a horizontally scalable system serving real operational use cases — alerting, real-time and batch analytics.
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Projects
Independent · Shopify → Pipedrive
Awake — sales automation integration
Designed and deployed automation connecting Awake's Shopify storefront to their Pipedrive CRM — syncing orders and line items straight into the sales pipeline. Killed the manual data entry and kept commercial data in lockstep, so the sales team works from a single source of truth.
Shopify APIPipedriveWebhooksOAuthAutomation
@ Agicap · Fintech
Change-data-capture ingestion
Deployed CDC streams from PostgreSQL to Google Cloud Storage using Airbyte, unlocking near-real-time data flows for business-critical systems.
AirbytePostgreSQLCDCGCSStreaming
@ Agicap · Fintech
Platform FinOps & cost optimization
Led a sustained cost-reduction effort across the data platform — optimizing dbt models, tuning orchestration workflows, and fine-tuning cluster scaling — cutting platform spend by 30%. Separately halved a streaming reporting instance through targeted optimization, cutting its running cost by roughly half.
dbtBigQueryAirflowCluster tuningCost
@ Agicap · Fintech
Client retention & downsell services
Built the front end and extended the admin APIs behind revenue-impacting business services like client churn and downsell workflows, adding new functionality as the business needed it, then exposed the same operations to HubSpot so business teams can trigger them directly from their CRM.
APIFrontendHubSpotPythonAutomation
@ Agicap · Fintech
Airbyte migration to Kubernetes
Migrated Airbyte from a single-VM deployment to a GKE cluster on GCP, adapting Airbyte's official Helm chart into our Terraform stack. Kept the cluster and its Airbyte API off the public internet, routing access through a dedicated bastion host instead.
AirbyteKubernetesGKEHelmTerraformBastion host
@ Agicap · Ongoing
AI enablement for analytics
Building an AI context layer over the analytics platform — Looker MCP for natural-language exploration, with structured context across data-engineering repos — so LLM tooling works reliably against real company data.
Looker MCPLLM contextdbtAnalytics
@ Agicap · Fintech
Embedded analytics for partners
Embedded Looker dashboards directly into HubSpot using signed embed URLs, giving partners self-serve visibility scoped strictly to their own data.
LookerEmbedded AnalyticsSigned URLsHubSpot
@ Veolia · Enterprise
Data Platform-as-a-Service
Productised a reusable cloud data platform and deployed 20+ instances across Veolia's business units — with shared alerting, connectors, and usage dashboards baked in. One model, many teams, repeatable delivery. Led a team of four to ship it.
TerraformGKECI/CDAirflowLooker
@ AKKA · Industrial IoT
Real-time anomaly detection at scale
Architected an Industry 4.0 big-data platform for industrial IoT — batch and streaming in a lambda design, load-tested at ~1 MB/s — with supervised machine-learning models detecting anomalies live against real operational use cases.
Francisco quickly became a pillar of the team thanks to his adaptability and excellent communication. Beyond his technical skills, he stood out for his energy, initiative, and proactivity.
Arnaud RoletTech Lead Data, VWIS · managed Francisco at Veolia · translated from French
Francisco is a talented engineer who is passionate about his field, with strong technical skills in problem-solving, software design, architecture, and development. His ability to solve complex technical problems has been an asset to our team.
Sadeq Zougari, PhD, PMPEU Project & Data Manager, AKKODIS · managed Francisco
He took the lead on a new Google Cloud Platform product and quickly built the expertise needed to deliver value to the customer. He's an excellent professional and a great person, always enthusiastic and ready for any challenge.
Quentin BaretAlliance Manager, SFEIR · worked with Francisco