Paulo R.

Paulo R.

Software Developer

Recife - State of Pernambuco, Brazil
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About Me

Paulo is an enthusiastic software engineer with 14+ years of experience developing high-scale systems in multiple technology stacks. He loves using technology to solve real-world problems, having worked and led projects in awarded startups from the financial, education, and health markets. Paulo has great expertise in the development of microservices and web applications following the best engineering practices.

Work history

Zeal IT Consultants (Via Toptal)
Senior Software Engineer
2021 - 2022 (1 year)
, Remote
  • Designed and developed microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL.

  • Applied event-driven architecture principles to develop loosely coupled microservices using Apache Kafka.

  • Implemented microservice patterns to attend to desired consistency and delivery requirements.

  • Provided guidance and mentoring to three mid-level junior engineers.

  • Developed CI/CD pipelines to optimize build, test, and deployment.

  • Created reusable GitHub private actions to perform service-checking operations, preventing the deployment of broken versions to production and reducing 70% of the needed code.

  • Integrated services with New Relic giving monitoring capabilities to the team and reducing service downtime.

  • Implemented data audit mechanisms providing data change tracking from multiple sources.

  • Implemented consumer-driven contract testing using Pact to ensure communication and compatibility between microservices.

  • Implemented integration tests to ensure desired application behavior in concurrent scenarios.

JavaMicroservicesSpring BootDockerAmazon Web Services (AWS) PostgreSQLKubernetesApache Kafka Continuous Delivery (CD)Continuous Integration (CI)CouchbasePact Integration TestingRelational Databases Java 11 jUnitBash Script DevOpsREST APIs API IntegrationKafka Streams Web APIBashMicroservices Architecture DatabasesCI/CD Pipelines Java 8 Java 17 MockitoGitHub Actions GitOpsWeb Architecture API Architecture RESTful Development Agile
GoDocs
Senior Software Engineer
2020 - 2021 (1 year)
, Remote
  • Designed and developed specialized Mortgage Software for customers within various entities, applying necessary regulatory and legal requirements.

  • Designed new system architecture using C#, .NET Core, and Vue.js.

  • Revised old code bases and refactored application modules to adopt modern development standards, tools, practices, and frameworks.

  • Created a refactoring plan for a team of five software engineers.

  • Guided engineers to adopt modern practices and frameworks to increase maintainability and productivity.

  • Communicated with investors to illustrate deficits and bottlenecks within existing software and proposed a refactoring plan.

MVC Frameworks C#C#.NET Visual Studio HTMLCSSJavaScript.NETMicrosoft SQL Server BootstrapFull-stack SQLVue jQueryGitlabJIRA.NET CoreArchitecture Relational Databases API IntegrationWeb APIModel View Controller (MVC) .NET 4 SQL Server 2016 ASP.NETDatabasesFront-end XML.NET 5 Web Architecture ASP.NET CoreFront-end Development JavaScript MVC API Architecture Agile
Acqio Payments
Software Engineer
2017 - 2020 (3 years)
, Remote
  • Designed and developed high-scale microservices to support about three million monthly payment transactions using C# and Kotlin.

  • Developed integrations with external payment gateways resulting in a three-time increase in credit card brands supported by the product and a growth of about 5% in revenue.

  • Built web applications, mobile applications, and features in POS devices using technologies like Kotlin, C#, MVC.NET, C/C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React Native.

  • Designed and developed the core framework to integrate services with the company's ERP.

  • Reviewed codes from teammates and algorithms from candidates in the hiring process.

BootstrapMVC Frameworks RESTMVC Design ScrumFull-stack REST APIs FinTech.NETBack-end Object-oriented Programming (OOP) Web APIASP.NET MVCDockerC#.NET TypescriptjQueryJavaScriptMockitoXUnitUnit TestingTest-driven development (TDD)C++CProtocol BuffersgRPCAPIsMicroservicesMongoDBAzure Cosmos DB Azure SQL Microsoft SQL Server Azure React NativeKotlinC#Architecture Integration TestingRelational Databases Card Payments API IntegrationCloudEventBusModel View Controller (MVC) .NET 4 AJAXSQL Server 2016 BashMicroservices Architecture ASP.NETDatabasesFront-end SSLReact XMLJava 8 Web Architecture ASP.NET CoreFront-end Development JavaScript MVC Financial Data Data Visualization.NET CorePoint of Sale POS API Architecture RESTful Development Agile
Foton Informatics
Systems Analyst
2013 - 2016 (3 years)
, Remote
  • Designed and developed large-scale and mission-critical banking solutions using Jakarta EE.

  • Led a local development team of three engineers in the internet banking project.

  • Participated in developing internet banking, bank automation, bank agency automation, and self-service center projects.

  • Developed web services and integrated them with external or legacy systems.

  • Designed and developed a legacy bank system simulator which removed the dependency on the client's legacy system and increased the development of the team's productivity.

  • Developed web services and integrated them with external and legacy systems.

Back-end Development JEEMVC Frameworks MVC Design Full-stack Object-oriented Programming (OOP) Jakarta EE MicroservicesOracleWeb ServicesAPIsWeb DevelopmentBanking & Finance JSF SpringJava EEJavaIntegration TestingRelational Databases jUnitAPI IntegrationCore Banking Systems Model View Controller (MVC) AJAXDatabasesFront-end SSLXMLXSDXML Web Services JPos Web Architecture Front-end Development JavaScript MVC API Architecture
Self-employed
Cloud Computing Consultant
2012 - 2017 (5 years)
, Remote
  • Mapped best solutions to local companies to migrate their infrastructure to the cloud, mainly working with Amazon AWS.

  • Migrated the infrastructure from a local eCommerce solutions company from a conventional host to AWS, including the eCommerce of one of the major local retail companies, which resulted in a cost reduction of 55% without any loss of performance.

  • Redesigned the already existing infrastructure of an ERP company in AWS, resulting in a cost reduction of 75%.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft SQL Server Amazon EC2 Architecture AWS Cloud Architecture Relational Databases Bash Script CloudSQL Server 2016 DatabasesSSLAzure Azure SQL
Joy Street
Tech Lead / Software Engineer
2010 - 2013 (3 years)
, Remote
  • Led the company's technology team in an awarded project in the education market.

  • Designed and developed a platform that includes a social network, a game server, and a back-office application using Java.

  • Built the infrastructure in the Amazon AWS platform to achieve high scalability by applying clustering, load-balancing, and HA capabilities to support about 0.7 million users.

  • Performed tuning and related tasks at server, application, and database levels to achieve performance and scalability needs.

  • Provided guidance and mentoring to three mid-level junior engineers.

  • Developed integration frameworks with third-party platforms such as Wikipedia, WordPress, and Pentaho.

  • Participated in the data warehouse and data mining company's project.

JEEMVC Frameworks MVC Design ScrumFull-stack Back-end Jakarta EE LinuxCSSHTML5Scalability Web Scalability jQueryJavaScriptAmazon Web Services (AWS) MySQLPostgreSQLPentahoApache Struts 2 HibernateJPA Spring DataSpring SecuritySpring MVCSpringJava EEJavaAmazon EC2 Architecture AWS Cloud Architecture Integration TestingRelational Databases Bash Script REST APIs API IntegrationCaching CloudModel View Controller (MVC) AJAXBashDatabasesFront-end SSLXMLXSDXML Web Services UbuntuWeb Architecture Front-end Development JavaScript MVC Data VisualizationAgile
Meantime Mobile Creations
System Engineer
2009 - 2010 (1 year)
, Remote
  • Developed educational web platform for Government of Pernambuco state using mainly Java EE and Java Script.

  • Implemented optimized tools to manipulate and import large data sets.

  • Optimized SQL and HQL queries to extract strategic data to analysis from MySQL database.

JEEMVC Frameworks MVC Design ScrumFull-stack Back-end Object-oriented Programming (OOP) Jakarta EE CSSHTMLJavaScriptAmazon Web Services (AWS) MySQLApache MavenApache AntSpringApache Struts 2 Java EEJavaRelational Databases Bash Script REST APIs API IntegrationCaching Model View Controller (MVC) AJAXDatabasesFront-end XMLUbuntuWeb Architecture Front-end Development JavaScript MVC Data VisualizationAgile
Vinic - Management and Projects
Software Developer
2008 - 2009 (1 year)
, Remote
  • Developed systems such as ERP, quality management, and hospital systems using Java.

  • Mentored external client teams in design and development using Java.

  • Developed strategic reports using iReport and BIRT.

JEEMVC Frameworks MVC Design Full-stack Back-end Object-oriented Programming (OOP) Jakarta EE BIRTiReport Apache MavenOraclePostgreSQLJavaScriptJSF Apache StrutsJava EEJavaRelational Databases Model View Controller (MVC) DatabasesFront-end Front-end Development JavaScript MVC Data VisualizationAgile
Contaline
Software Developer Intern
2007 - 2008 (1 year)
, Remote
  • Developed the company's ERP product using ASP and VBScript.

  • Developed management and accountability strategic reports.

  • Managed the company's local and remote IT infrastructure.

Full-stack VbscriptSQLMicrosoft SQL Server ASPRelational Databases DatabasesFront-end Front-end Development

Portfolio

Account Manager Service

A microservice to aggregate and manage the organization's accounts.This service was the source of truth for the account information. It was in charge of consuming Kafka messages from multiple sources, which included third-party applications, aggregating the data, applying for the needed business roles, and publishing a message to be consumed by others microservices of the solution.Technologies used: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and Kafka.

Opportunity Manager Service

A microservice in charge of managing the opportunities of a hiring process.This service was built to manage the opportunities of a staffing company, aggregating and applying the needed business rules over the related data.Part of the solution was applied event-driven architecture; this service consumes and publishes data from Kafka clusters.Technologies used: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and Kafka.

Soccer Manager API

REST API to football/soccer fans create fantasy teams and sell or buy players.The users can perform actions such as create an account, log in to the API, and manage their team selling and buying players. Users can also edit some specific information about their team and players.Was also implemented an admin role in which CRUD users, players, and teams changing all its information.This API was implemented using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, JPA, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, JWT, and Swagger (documentation).Was also implemented integration and unit tests.

Payments Authorization Service

A service to process credit card transactions from POS devices.This service was integrated with an external payment gateways to make the authorizations with the credit card brands and other internal services to process the liquidation.It was developed using C#, Protocol Buffers, and SQL Server.

Transactions ERP Integration

A framework to integrate credit card transactions with the company's ERP.This company had a huge amount of transactions per day and needs to integrate these transactions in the ERP to perform the financial and accounting tasks.This system made the parsing of the transactions data into the proper ERP entries and group everything in a queue to send to the ERP web service.This demands proper throughput management to do not overload the ERP web service and, at the same time, flow the data in the proper schedule to the financial and accounting teams.This system was a base framework to integrate any other company information.

OjE - Olympics of Digital Games and Education

An innovative Social Network for the education market created to increase the educational rates of students of public schools.This project won many awards due to its innovative nature and practical result.I joined the initial phase, and it was initially built using Java, Struts, Hibernate, and MySQL.As the project tech lead, I was responsible for the major technical decisions to achieve the business goals.This project was later redesigned to use the Spring Stack, with Spring MVC, Spring Security, and Spring Data.

OjE - Admin

A back-office application to manage the main company product (Olympic of digital games and education).This web application gives dashboards, monitoring, and registration tools to the team monitor and makes strategic decisions to the platform's growth.It was built using Java, Struts 2, Hibernate, and JasperReports.

Banklink

A mission-critical bank automation system, it works as the core system of a banking solution. This project was built to replace an existing legacy system of a Brazil capital public bank. I was one of the backend-developers. The solution was built from scratch using Java using some libraries such as JPos and Preon to attend to the standards of the financial market and integrate with other legacy systems.

Legacy Bank Simulator

A Java-based application of a legacy bank system simulator.This app's development resulted in a huge increase in team productivity that has been impacted due to a lot of problems accessing the real client legacy system.

To-Do Web App

A web application to create a to-do list provides the user with the basic functions needed to see and manage his own to-dos.The back end was developed over the Spring stack, using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, and Spring Data. JWT was used in the security layer for authorization.The front end was developed in Angular 9, TypeScript, and Bootstrap.

OpenMed

A web app for an ERP hospital system developed in Java EE platform.This system provides control and management of all areas of big hospitals.It was developed using Java, Struts, Hibernate, and JasperReports.

OpenSGQ

A quality control system developed to attend a demand from a local maintenance park of Brazilian army forces.As the principal developer, I built this system from scratch using the Java platform and frameworks Struts, Hibernate, and JasperReports.

Education

Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
2011 - 2013 (2 years)
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
UniFBV Wyden
2006 - 2010 (4 years)