Senior Engineering Manager, Data @ FINN · Building data platforms that actually work
📍 🇵🇹 Portuguese, living in 🇳🇱 Utrecht · 12 years wrangling data
name: André Santos
located_in: Utrecht, Netherlands
from: Portugal
job: Senior Engineering Manager, Data
company: FINN
past_companies: [Coolblue]
experience: 12+ years in data & engineering
garage:
- Yamaha Super Ténéré XT1200ZE # the adventure beast
- Yamaha TDM850 # the all-rounder
- Honda CB500 (1994) # the classic
hobbies: [mototouring, simracing, gaming, reading]
fun_fact: >
Once rode 1200km in 16 hours on my motorbike.
Coffee stops don't count as breaks.Obsessed with the intersection of AI and Data — bringing AI assistants from "cool demo" to something people actually rely on every day at work. The hard part isn't the AI, it's making it reliable, observable, and wired into the data that matters.
Data platforms should be invisible. AI assistants should be indispensable.
🏍️ If I'm not responding, I'm probably on a ride somewhere.