Hey there ๐
I am Ross Carvalho
Software Engineer & Data Engineer
Experienced professional specializing in data engineering, cloud technologies and software development, with experience delivering end-to-end solutions for data platform, data warehousing and ETL pipelines. Designed and implemented cost-efficient, high-performance data platform architectures on AWS and GCP. Accomplishments include automating complex pipelines, optimizing SQL scripts, and developing custom ETL frameworks. Offers a unique blend of technical skills to drive innovation and mentorship within the software development, cloud computing and data engineering field.
Experience at
Apple McKinsey & Co. FYND Quantiphi Pace University
Work Experience
Application Developer at McKinsey Investment Office (MIO Partners)
Sept 2025 โ Present ยท New York, USA- Developed and enhanced the McKinsey Investment Office (MIO) Manager Portal using React, Django REST APIs, SQL Server, and AWS services, providing over 20 investment managers with real-time visibility into portfolios across a $23+ billion investment platform, improving data accessibility and operational efficiency by approximately 40%.
- Collaborated with quant developers to integrate advanced investment calculators and analytical models into backend services, enabling portfolio managers to make more informed trade-offs across the multi-billion-dollar MIO portfolio.
Software Development Engineer (Intern) at Apple
Jun 2024 โ Aug 2024 ยท Cupertino, USA- Migrated outdated software services to optimized alternatives, achieving a 40% improvement in performance efficiency.
- Developed an End-to-End testing framework and comprehensive test suites for Kubernetes using the Go Ginkgo library, resulting in a 12x reduction in error reporting times and enhanced test coverage by 30%.
- Transitioned static JSON configurations to configurations as code using Apple's open-source tool, PKL, reducing repetitive configuration tasks by 50% and integrating testing features for enhanced configuration validation.
Software Development Engineer - 1 at FYND (Shopsense Retail Technologies)
Jul 2022 โ Aug 2023 ยท Mumbai, India- Designed and implemented architectural solutions for migrating NoSQL data sources (MongoDB) and relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) to their respective data lakes and data warehouses, resulting in a 70% reduction in cloud costs.
- Automated the creation of Platform resources and Data pipelines using Terraform and Python which reduced the deployment time by 90%.
- Developed a Node.js microservice which is one of the core component that handles the analytics section of Fynd Platform.
- Created end-to-end ML Ops Pipeline using Kubeflow Pipeline SDK on GCP Vertex AI which were utilized in ML model training and deployment.
- Implemented a Python microservice using Sanic framework and Kserve client library which is used by Boltic team for ML model deployment.
Data Engineer at QUANTIPHI
Aug 2020 โ Jun 2022 ยท Mumbai, India- Developed SCD1/SCD2 Facts and dimension SQL scripts for insurance data model which were further used by Analysts to populate Business KPI's.
- Collaborated on the development and comprehensive testing of a custom Python ETL framework, delivering enhanced efficiency and scalability compared to IICS pipelines.
- Automated unit testing by creating a python framework which reduced 50% of team's workload.
- Played a key role in identifying and addressing critical issues during UAT for smooth production deployment.
- Automated IICS pipelines monitoring using AWS Lambda and IICS API's which helped the support team to patch issues faster.
- Mentored individuals and took sessions on data engineering, data modeling, cloud engineering and cloud certifications.
Framework Engineer Intern at QUANTIPHI
Jan 2020 โ Aug 2020 ยท Mumbai, India- Trained as a Cloud Data Engineer equipped with skills on AWS, GCP, SQL, Python and Data Warehousing.
- Engineered backend of a Python-based microservice, which assisted frontend service to communicate with core ML services, utilizing the Flask framework, Docker and GCP services.
On Campus Experience
Lab Coordinator Assistant โ Computational Intelligence Lab, Pace University
Nov 2023 โ Present ยท New York, USA- Redesigned and developed a reliable and scalable JupyterHub service on-premise, achieving 99.99% uptime. This scalable solution empowers researchers with seamless access to computational resources, boosting lab efficiency and productivity.
- Proactively managed daily IT operations, ensuring optimal performance and inventory accuracy for all lab systems and components.
Education
Master's in Computer Science โ Pace University
Sep 2023 โ May 2025 ยท New York, USA- GPA : 4.0/4.0
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering โ Mumbai University
Jul 2016 โ Jun 2020 ยท Mumbai, India- GPA : 9.55/10
Skills
Languages
Python Java C JavaScript SQL Shell Scripting
Cloud & DevOps
AWS GCP Docker Terraform Kubernetes
Frameworks & Tools
React Django Flask Node.js Snowflake Git Jira Kubeflow