André Souza is an experienced Solutions Architect at BlueShift Brasil, with a focus on designing, implementing, and estimating costs for solution architectures involving software development using open-source technologies and big data technologies within Hadoop ecosystems. Prior to this, André held roles as a Big Data Engineer and Software Developer, specializing in distributed processing with Apache Spark and back-end web applications using Java. André began the professional journey as a Java Programmer at SHX, enhancing ERP systems, and previously completed an internship at W Automação Comercial, focusing on business automation solutions. André's academic background includes a degree in Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas from Fatec Taquaritinga, where support was provided to students in algorithms and programming logic.