Paulo Rodrigues
Senior Software Engineer
Recife
Summary
Enthusiastic Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience in high-scale systems with different technology stacks. Eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Motivated by challenges to learn and grow in world class projects.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Toptal - PLS Logistics - GoShip
02.2023 - 01.2024
- Developed Microservices for major modernization project, replacing legacy systems and boosting processing capacity of 1+ million annual loads.
- Investigated and resolved performance issues, optimizing memory and CPU configurations in Kubernetes environment.
- Developed front-end components using JavaScript and Angular.
- Pioneered implementation of Server-Sent Events (SSE), enabling real-time push notifications for user updates, enhancing application interactivity and user experience.
- Introduced resiliency patterns, implementing robust retry mechanisms to reduce failure rates in inter-Microservice communication, fortifying project's reliability and robustness.
- Participated actively in releases, code reviews, and design discussions.
Senior Software Engineer
Toptal - Zeal IT Consultants
07.2021 - 12.2022
- 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 desired consistency and delivery requirements.
- Guided and mentored 3 mid/junior engineers
- Developed CI/CD pipelines to optimize build, test and deployment.
- Created reusable GitHub private actions to perform service checking operations, preventing deploy of broken versions to production and reducing 70% amount of code needed for it.
- Integrated services with New Relic giving monitoring capabilities to team and reducing service downtime.
- Implemented Data Audit mechanisms providing data changes 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.
Senior Software Engineer
Toptal - GoDocs
11.2021 - 07.2022
- 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, practices and frameworks.
- Created refactoring plan to team of 5 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 propose refactoring plan.
Software Engineer
Acqio Payments
02.2017 - 04.2020
- Designed and developed high-scale Microservices to support about 3M monthly payments transactions using C# and Kotlin.
- Developed integrations with external payment gateways resulting in increase of 3x credit cards brands supported by product and growth of about 5% in revenue.
- Developed Web Apps, Mobile Apps and features in POS Devices using technologies like Kotlin, C#, MVC.NET, C/C++, JavaScript, TypeScript and React Native.
- Engineered core framework to integrate services with company's ERP.
- Reviewed codes from teammates and algorithms from candidates of hiring process.
Cloud Computing Consultant (Part-time)
Paulo Rodrigues Consulting
07.2010 - 02.2017
- Mapped best solutions to local companies migrate its infrastructure to Cloud, mainly working with Amazon AWS.
- Achieved cost reductions from 55% to 75% for clients.
Systems Analyst
Foton Informatics
04.2013 - 02.2016
- Designed and developed large scale and mission-critical banking solutions using Java.
- Led a local development team of 3 engineers in the Internet Banking Project.
- Participated in the development of Internet Banking, Bank Automation, Bank Agency Automation and Self Service Center projects.
- Designed and developed a legacy bank system simulator which removed the dependency of a client legacy system and increase the development the team's productivity.
- Developed Web services and integrated with external and legacy systems.
Tech Lead / Software Engineer
Joy Street
08.2010 - 04.2013
- Led company’s technology team in awarded project of education market.
- Designed and developed platform which includes Social Network, Game Server and Back Office Application using Java.
- Built infrastructure in Amazon AWS platform to achieve high scalability applying clustering, load-balancing and HA capabilities to support about 0.7M users.
- Performed tuning and related tasks in Server, Application and Database level to achieve performance and scalability needs.
- Guided and mentored 3 mid/junior engineers.
- Developed integration frameworks with third party platforms such as Wikipedia, Wordpress and Pentaho.
- Participated of Data warehouse and Data mining company's project.
System Engineer
Meantime Mobile Creations
03.2009 - 07.2010
- Developed educational web platform for Government of Pernambuco state using mainly Java 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.
Software Developer
Vinic - Management And Projects
04.2008 - 03.2009
- Developed systems such as ERP, Quality Management and Hospital Systems using Java.
- Mentored external clients teams in design and development using Java.
Software Developer Intern
Contaline
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Developed company's ERP product using ASP and VBScript.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Federal University Of Pernambuco (UFPE)
Recife, Brazil 07.2011 - 12.2013
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
UniFBV Wyden
Recife, Brazil 01.2006 - 07.2010
Skills
Java
Spring / Spring Boot
Kotlin
C# / NET
JavaScript
TypeScript
React Native
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Oracle
SQL Server
NoSQL Databases
AWS
Azure
Microservices
REST
GRPC
Protocol Buffers
Event-driven architecture
Apache Kafka
Docker
Kubernetes
Testing
CI/CD Pipelines
Github Actions
Scalability
Systems Design
Algorithms and Data Structures
Fast Learning
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Toptal - PLS Logistics - GoShip
02.2023 - 01.2024
Senior Software Engineer
Toptal - GoDocs
11.2021 - 07.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Toptal - Zeal IT Consultants
07.2021 - 12.2022
Software Engineer
Acqio Payments
02.2017 - 04.2020
Systems Analyst
Foton Informatics
04.2013 - 02.2016
Master of Science - Computer Science
Federal University Of Pernambuco (UFPE)
07.2011 - 12.2013
Tech Lead / Software Engineer
Joy Street
08.2010 - 04.2013
Cloud Computing Consultant (Part-time)
Paulo Rodrigues Consulting
07.2010 - 02.2017
System Engineer
Meantime Mobile Creations
03.2009 - 07.2010
Software Developer
Vinic - Management And Projects
04.2008 - 03.2009
Software Developer Intern
Contaline
01.2007 - 01.2008
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
UniFBV Wyden
01.2006 - 07.2010