Eric Ferreira

About Eric Ferreira

Accomplished technology executive with experience leading multiple teams of database and sofware engineers• Highly experienced in many database technologies, from mission-critical OLTP to large-scale data warehouse• Proven troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities• Strong communication skills, effectively addressing both technical and non-technical audiences• World-class speaker with speaking engagements at AWS reInvent/Summits, Oracle OpenWorld, and MySQL Connect• Extensive Linux administration skills, capable of developing complex scripts to support database operation• Deep knowledge of storage arrays and disk systems for database infrastructure• Deep SQL, Python, Java, C/C++, and Bash skills. Expert in SQL and Application Tuning

Experience

1. Manager, Core Data Services

   Balyasny Asset Management L.P.

   Jul 2025 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Owner of all databases company-wide (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, MongoDB, Redis), Messaging (Kafka, Solace) and Orchestration (Airflow, ActiveBatch)

Education

• Universidade Estadual de Campinas

  Computer Engineering

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Data Warehousing
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Performance Tuning
• Software Design
• Unix Shell Scripting
• System Architecture
• Oracle Rac
• Shell Scripting
• Web Services
• Sql
• Database Development
• Software Development
• Oracle
• Solaris
• Database Design
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Architecture
• High Availability
• Perl
• Pl/Sql
• Unix
• Data Modeling
• Databases
• Hadoop
• Business Intelligence
• Etl
• Sql Tuning