Adriano Sanges — CEO
I work at the intersection of data, decision-making, and scale. Over the years, I have seen many companies invest heavily in data, tools, platforms, and teams, and still struggle to turn data into better decisions. Most of the time, the problem is not technology. It is clarity. My background spans data engineering, architecture, governance, and analytics leadership. I have built data platforms end to end and led multidisciplinary data teams across engineering and analytics. This gives me a full view of how data actually moves from ingestion to decisions and where it usually breaks down. I believe data platforms should be pragmatic before sophisticated, aligned with real business questions, designed to scale organizationally and not just technically, and compliant and privacy-aware by design rather than as an afterthought. I lead fully remote, geo-distributed teams with a product mindset focused on clear ownership, explicit trade-offs, and measurable outcomes. Whether it is platform design, governance, or team structure, my goal is always the same: helping organizations move faster without losing control. Here, I write about data leadership and decision-making, pragmatic data architectures and anti-hype trade-offs, data governance, GDPR, and privacy by design, and building effective remote data teams. I am particularly interested in how startups and scaleups can use data well without unnecessary complexity and how data leaders can create impact beyond dashboards
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering and Governance expert in the SaaS and Fintech industries.
Experience: 12 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Data Engineering
- Data Governance
- Software Engineering
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Data Platform Engineering
- Cloud Migration
- Data Platform Development
- Data Pipeline Development
- Big Data Architecture
- Java Development
Career Highlights
- Expert in designing scalable data platforms.
- Proven leadership in remote, geo-distributed teams.
- Strong focus on data governance and privacy.
Work Experience
Dataskew.io
Fondatore (1 yr)
Didomi
Engineering Manager, Data & Analytics (4 yrs 4 mos)
Workday
Principal Software Engineer (7 mos)
Walmart Global Tech
Technical Lead - Data Platform (2 yrs 2 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (9 mos)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Data Engineer (1 yr 1 mo)
Integrazioni & Sistemi spa
R&D Java / Big Data Specialist (1 yr 1 mo)
CSP SpA
R&D Java / Big Data Specialist (1 yr 8 mos)
T&C System Group
Assistant Professor in Hadoop - Cloudera Suite class (1 mo)
Hadoop Intern (8 mos)
Education
Summer School on BI and Big Data Analytics at SoData 2015
Bachelor's degree at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
Sperimentale di Informatica at Liceo Scientifico G. Mercalli
