Now
Data Architect and Senior Data Engineer roles, remote in the EU or senior roles in Africa, and selected consulting engagements in data architecture, governance and engineering.
Updated 1 October 2026
Working on
- Near real-time replication and Gold reporting models for a smart mobility partner, with Apache Iceberg, dbt and Trino
- Data governance for the lakehouse: lineage, PII cataloguing and query-time access control with OpenLineage, OpenMetadata and Apache Ranger
- wb-cdc-analytics, a public one-command CDC pipeline: PostgreSQL, Debezium, Redpanda, ClickHouse, dbt and Airflow, monitored with Prometheus and Grafana
- On the side: Amharic small language model quantization (paper in review, 2026) and Amharic OCR
Learning
- Apache Flink for stream processing
- Snowflake
- Terraform
Where and when
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (East Africa Time)
Open to conversations now; I can start after September 2026.
Email me about work at mathiwossilvio@gmail.com, or about anything else at matidesalegnece@gmail.com.