João Cerca

Gdynia, Poland · contact@joaocerca.eu

An aspiring Data Engineer.
Passionate about music and data related to it (check the Dashboards section).
Books and films are also on the list of pleasures.
Driving a car? Check
Feel free to drop me a line, the contact is above.


Experience

Thomson Reuters

Gdansk, Poland

Content Developer / Data Engineer
✔ Facilitating and automating the delivery of top-quality Indirect Tax content.
✔ Managing the deployment of script and tool upgrades, enhancements and fixes to agreed deadlines.
✔ Evaluating existing content creation and testing processes.
✔ Driving innovation by providing recommendations for automation.
✔ Learning and developing technical skills required to work effective with Python and SQL.
✔ Clearly documenting all projects/tools/scripts developed.
✔ Contributing to the testing of tax content changes for quality assurance.
June 2024 - present

DXC Technology

Poland

Big Data Specialist
✔ Delivery of operations support, concept creation and transition to operations following the DevOps model.
✔ Last level of support for incidents and problem resolution and implementation of fixes.
✔ Development and release of approved changes based on customer requirements and needs.
March 2022 - April 2024

LSEG / Refinitiv

Gdynia, Poland

Process Improvement and Automation Analyst (Senior)
✔ Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) of worldwide macroeconomic historical series, into Refinitv commercial products (Datastream, Eikon, etc.);
✔ Creation and maintenance of Python scripts to automate the extraction of data (API's, Beautiful Soup, etc.)
✔ Production of offline downloaders in Java if there was no possibility of a Python solution or the real-time download was not a priority.
✔ Creation and maintenance of converters (scripts) responsible for transforming raw data into the databases, of macroeconomic historical series;

Events Content Analyst
✔ Gathered information regarding corporate financial event data;
✔ Contacted investor relations teams of publicly-traded companies in Brazil and USA;
✔ Analyzed internal data and identified patterns, trends of previous corporate financial events in order to increase the productivity and efficiency of the workflow;
✔ Suggested solutions and improvements in the workflow and in the events’ backoffice platform;
✔ Mentored less experienced colleagues regarding doubts, concerns that may arise during work.
✔ Use of RESTful API to extract data from national statistics platforms, as an alternative solution to other data sources and procedures (manual download of excel data files)
January 2016 - February 2022

Mintel

London, United Kingdom
Market Research Analyst - Brazil and Portugal
✔ Researched specific markets across Brazil & Portugal, using trade interview with the market players and secondary published resources;
✔ Provide insight and opinion into the markets where required;
April 2015 - October 2015

Certifications


Education

Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra

College of Education
Bachelor in Media Studies
2005 - 2009

Polytechnic Institute of Leiria

School of Technology and Management
Computer Engineering
2003 - 2005

Dashboards

Music database