Franco Acosta

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Principal Engineer at Lantern Finance | ex-Banco do Brasil

Lantern Finance
Buenos Aires, Argentina · ART (UTC-3)
12+ years experience
Tecnológico de Monterrey
English, Spanish
Open to work
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Overview

I've spent 12 years on data pipelines - first at iFood, now at Lantern Finance. Moved 83% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 38% in two quarters.

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  • Roles in consumer
  • Working sessions on Snowflake
  • Second opinions on Python decisions
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Decks without a clear ask
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
SnowflakedbtAirflowPythonKafkaSpark
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Data Engineer in e-commerce, Buenos Aires or hybrid

Target roles
Data Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Consumer apps, Fintech
Work mode
Remote
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Argentina
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series B) where consumer is core to the product.
Not interested in
Pure people management

12 years in data pipelines. Strongest at Python and Snowflake. Can start in about six weeks.

Buenos Aires, Argentina · remote OKsnowflakedbtspark
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Nov 2025 - Present
    Lantern Finance · 11 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Backed 22 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2024 - Nov 2025
    Banco do Brasil · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Moved 64% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Senior Data Engineer
    May 2021 - Jun 2024
    FEMSA · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Built the forecasting models now used in 5 product decisions a quarter.
  4. Data Engineer
    Mar 2018 - May 2021
    Kavak · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Cut forecast error from 31% to 9% across 2854 SKUs.
  5. Data Engineer
    Oct 2014 - Mar 2018
    iFood · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Replaced 58 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Cut forecast error from 24% to 10% across 3498 SKUs.

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Education

  1. Tecnológico de Monterrey
    Ingeniería, Information Technology
    2009 - 2013

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