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Virgilio Gonzenbach

Senior Cloud Data Engineer

€425/day
Barcelona, ES
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Virgilio

As a Cloud-first Data and DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience, I specialize in architecting and building the automated platforms that power modern data analytics. I thrive on solving complex challenges in large-scale, enterprise environments.

In my recent roles at Deutsche Bank and MediaMarktSaturn, I've focused on high-impact initiatives:

Platform Engineering: I co-developed an IaC-driven migration platform to stream on-prem Kafka data into BigQuery, and I operated ~20 Terraform Enterprise workspaces to ensure governance and stability across a multi-tenant cloud environment.

Data Warehousing & Architecture: I designed and co-architected a Medallion-style enterprise data warehouse on BigQuery and Dataform, establishing the core framework for data quality, partitioning, and incremental loading for a team of 12 developers.

DevOps & CI/CD Automation: I bootstrapped CI/CD layers from the ground up using GitHub Actions and Terraform, cutting deployment times by up to 90% and reducing developer workload by 30% through pre-merge testing and automated rollbacks.

My core technical expertise includes:
🔹 Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS
🔹 IaC & DevOps: Terraform, Terraform Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Docker
🔹 Data & Analytics: BigQuery, Spark/Dataproc, Kafka/Pub-Sub, Airflow/Composer
🔹 Languages: Python, Scala, SQL, Bash

As a former Ivy-League master's candidate and a Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, I combine a rigorous academic foundation with hands-on, practical expertise.

I'm passionate about building resilient, efficient, and scalable data solutions. If you're tackling a challenge in cloud migration, data platform automation, or DevOps, I'd love to connect.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Conversational

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Deutsche Bank | GFT IT Consulting
    SENIOR CLOUD DATA ENGINEER (EXTERNAL CONTRACTOR)
    September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
    • Co-developing a Terraform-driven migration platform to stream on-prem Kafka topics into BigQuery via Scala-Spark Structured Streaming jobs orchestrated by Airflow custom codebase.
    • Automate Terraform testing with GitHub Actions, Kitchen-Terraform, GCP InSpec, cutting PR merge time 20 % and blocking mis-configs before they hit shared dev.
    • Operate ~20 Terraform Enterprise workspaces that provision GCP projects, Dataproc clusters, Composer environments and BigQuery tables; resolve complex state drift and keep org-policy compliance across a multi-tenant Landing Zone.
    Terraform BigQuery Apache Spark GCP Apache Airflow
  • Media Saturn Barcelona Tech Hub | MediaMarktSaturn
    DATA ENGINEER
    June 2024 - June 2025 (1 year)
    Barcelona, Spain
    • Designed Medallion-style datamart on BigQuery & Dataform for the Repairs domain, delivering 10 ELT models with automated DQ checks.
    • Co-architected the enterprise Medallion warehouse (45 models), leading the data-quality framework, incremental-load logic, and partitioning strategy for a 12-developer team.
    • Bootstrapped CI/CD (GitHub Actions + Bash + GCP APIs), cutting release duration by up to ~90% and developer workload by ~30% through pre-merge testing, rollback strategies and dev environment automation.
    • Owned the DevOps/Infra backlog as GCP SME—ran ticket intake/creation, grooming and resource allocation—improving sprint reliability and unblocking Terraform & CI/CD delivery.
    BigQuery GitHub Actions Terraform Dataform SQL
  • Department of Biostatistics and Informatics | University of Pennsylvania
    DATA SCIENTIST, STATISTICAL PROGRAMMER
    October 2020 - June 2023 (2 years and 8 months)
    Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • Built generalized batch pipelines for distributed environments using Python, R & Bash, accelerating project deliveries from weeks to days.
    • Implemented end-to-end ML workflows—data cleaning, model training, cross-validation, and report generation—for ~10 research projects in neuroimaging & biomedicine.
    • Authored reusable tooling: R packages, CLIs and Docker images, that automated preprocessing in novel scientific areas, e.g. microscopy.
    • Introduced GitHub Actions CI/CD, standardising tests & container builds. Led git, Docker workshops for scientific research team of 8.

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Education

  • Master's in Computational Neuroscience
    University of Texas at Dallas
    2020
    Master's in Computational Neuroscience
  • Bachelor's in Psychology
    Purdue University (IUPUI)
    2017
    Bachelor's in Psychology

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