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Eric SchäferES

Eric Schäfer

Data Engineer Hadoop, Spark & GCP

€670/day
Toulouse, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Eric

💡 Data Engineer – Expert Spark, Hadoop, Cloud & Transformation Data

For 8 years, I have been supporting international groups in the industrialization, cleaning, and valorization of their data. Based in Toulouse, I work in person or 100% remotely, with a dual objective: technical reliability and measurable business impact.

🔗 Complete & High-Impact Offering:

Cloud & Big Data Architecture : Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, GCP (certified), Azure (certified), AWS
Data Pipelines & Automation : design/migration, CI/CD, Airflow, Python (PySpark), Scala, SQL
Dataviz & Business : decision-making dashboards, advanced monitoring, custom dashboards (Tableau, Streamlit)
Optimization & Security : scaling, tuning, governance, intelligent partitioning
High ROI Projects : automatic anomaly detection (up to €3M identified), reduced time-to-production, team mentoring

🎯 Why Choose Me?

- Fast and documented delivery (large companies, scale-ups, and SMEs already supported)
- Scalable solutions that stand the test of time
- Clear communication: autonomy or training of internal teams

🌍 Area of Operation

Based in Toulouse, I operate throughout France (in-person or full remote).

📈 Contact

Ready to give meaning to your data? Let's discuss your data challenges, cloud migration, or advanced detection/analysis!


  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Basic

Can work on-site
Toulouse (up to 50km), Pau (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Enovos
    Freelance Data Engineer
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    December 2023 - June 2025 (1 year and 6 months)
    Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
    Data Analysis & Business Intelligence
    ➡️ Customer Retention Analysis
    ✅ Detection of lost revenue per customer
    ✅ Identification of competitors attracting the most customers

    ➡️ Monitoring the quality of calls received by call centers
    ➡️ Analysis of mobile application usage
    ✅ Understanding the most used features and guiding development priorities.

    ➡️ Analysis of network fees between the manager and the end customer.
    ✅ Detection of €3 million in billing errors
    ✅ Provision of a monthly representation of expected consumption
    ✅ Creation of a quarterly dashboard to detect anomalies before invoice validation.


    Data Engineering & Web Intelligence
    ➡️ Design and implementation of web crawlers to extract data
    ✅ Enable competitive monitoring.

    ➡️ Development of solutions to interface unofficial APIs, thereby creating new data flows
    ✅ Ability to eliminate paid tools from the application chain

    ➡️ Construction of robust data models for cross-functional analyses
    ➡️ Creation and monitoring of Airflow pipelines
    AWS Redshift Web Scraping Python Tableau SQL
  • ArcelorMittal
    Freelance Data Engineer
    RAW MATERIALS INDUSTRY
    April 2023 - December 2023 (8 months)
    Florange, France
    Supervision of a Cloudera platform and DevOps
    ✔️ Implementation of monitoring on cluster resources
    ✔️ Creation of progressive alerts on the cluster (e.g., stronger or weaker alert on disk fill rate)
    ✔️ Automation of application deployments with Azure DevOps
    ✅ Time-to-production divided by 10
    ✅ Deployment errors divided by 4

    Tech Lead PySpark
    ➡️ Support for engineering teams on PySpark development best practices
    ➡️ Tutoring junior developers on Spark application design
    ➡️ Performance optimization and architecture audit
    ✅ Execution time divided by 2 on average
    ✅ Implementation of data partitioning strategies allowing a 30% reduction in resources used
    Hadoop Apache Kafka IBM Mainframe Python Spark
  • Spuerkeess
    Consultant Data Architect
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    October 2022 - January 2023 (3 months)
    Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    - Implementation of a solution for extracting 80 TB of user logs.
    - Analysis and creation of a data model to enable the use of user logs
    - Configuration of the Hadoop cluster for the project (IAM Role, job tuning, ...)
    IBM Mainframe IBM Db2 Hadoop Spark Scala

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Education

  • Azure Data Engineer Associate
    2022
    Azure Data Engineer Associate
  • Google Professional Data Engineer
    2022
    Google Professional Data Engineer

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