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Yuri Soares

Yuri Soares

Fortaleza

Summary

I'm a seasoned software engineer specializing in Python and Node.js, known for crafting efficient distributed systems. Over 6 years, I've:

🚀 Distributed Systems Expertise: I've honed my skills in end-to-end distributed systems, emphasizing performance and reliability.

🔍 Data Platform Innovator: I led the development of a cutting-edge data platform, streamlining tasks and transforming data pipeline monitoring, resulting in substantial time and resource savings.

💡 Serverless Advocate: I'm a staunch advocate for serverless platforms, substantially reducing infrastructure costs by eliminating idle reserved servers, delivering significant savings.

🛡️ Anti-Fraud Champion: I spearheaded the integration of anti-fraud software, slashing fraud chargebacks by an impressive 90%, demonstrating my commitment to security.

🏆 Tech Leadership: As a tech lead, I've successfully directed cross-functional teams of up to 10 members, spanning product, engineering, and quality assurance, achieving remarkable results, even launching entirely new products from scratch in record time.

My passion lies in staying at the forefront of technology, embracing continuous learning, and implementing best practices to ensure top-notch software solutions.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Correlation One
11.2023 - Current
  • Developed a community algorithm to join users by defined criterias into teams
  • Created a new flow for learners to enroll into a course making possible to open up a new business plan
  • Participated in the migration from an legacy service into a new architecture
  • Improved the log handling for the company with structured logging
  • Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.
  • Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
  • Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.

Backend Developer

Zak
04.2021 - 05.2023
  • Improved and maintained a POS system used by more than 400 restaurants
  • Collaborated on the creation of an auto update system for on-premises servers based on Docker
  • Conducted an experiment that led to the integration of an IaC tool to CI/CD pipeline that improved the safety of infrastructure management
  • Coordinated the technical decisions for an in-app survey system
  • Mentored senior engineers on the adoption of NestJs as the backend framework
  • Taught serverless architecture good practices that reduced the expected cost of 2 services by 40%
  • Reduced the P90 of the API response time from 800ms with 200 clients to 180ms with 1000 clients in 3 months with SQL optimization and caching
  • Mentored the engineering team on DevOps culture and best practices
  • Improved the coverage of metrics analysis (DORA metrics) to more than 80%
  • Participated in a system architecture refactoring that increased the SLA to almost 90%
  • Collaborated with the engineering manager to improve Kafka resilience
  • Created a new messaging microservice using FastAPI and Redis to better deliver our customer updates
  • Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.

Tech Lead

Zak
02.2022 - 05.2022
  • Mentored 6 engineers towards their career objectives and work satisfaction through weekly 1:1s
  • Participated in the business decisions with the product team
  • Led the planning meetings to divide the business objectives into scrum sprints
  • Refined technical solutions with the engineering team
  • Coordinated the integration of a antifraud software the reduced 90% of fraud chargeback
  • Performed a cloud migration from GCP to AWS that helped centralize infrastructure monitoring
  • Facilitated bi-weekly follow ups with the infrastructure team (SRE, infosec) on cloud native applications best practices
  • Conducted successfully the launch of a new product from scratch in 2 months
  • Coached senior engineers on cloud first services and taking advantage of DynamoDB to reduce persistence costs
  • Collaborated with engineering managers to increase DORA metrics indicators

Data Architect

Sympla
08.2020 - 04.2021
  • Collaborated with data scientists to manage machine learning models training and availability
  • Managed data pipelines using lambda functions as processing and dynamodb and redis as persistence
  • Participated in the risk squad to maintain and improve risk analysis for buyer and producer
  • Partnered with data engineers to improve the availability and resilience of system with average 5000 requests per minute and peaks up to 50000 rpm.
  • Unified disparate data structures and operating environments during revamps of processing facilities, data centers and more.

Fullstack Developer

Sympla
07.2019 - 04.2021
  • Developed the data platform to improve time on monitoring machine learning models and data pipelines
  • Created a centralized authentication microservice to be used across internal tools using OAuth protocol
  • Performed the integration of internal tools used by data scientists and engineers
  • Worked with back-end developers to design APIs.

Web Developer Intern

EZ Travel - Sistema De Gestão Para O Turismo
09.2018 - 07.2019
  • Developed new features to both customer and admin platforms
  • Performed improvements of application architecture and data flow
  • Participated in the decoupling of the email service to an external microservice using SQS as the message broker
  • Conducted maintenance on both frontend and backend systems

Data Science Researcher

DPRF - DEPARTAMENTO DE POLÍCIA RODOVIÁRIA FEDERAL
03.2018 - 09.2018
  • Studied data science, machine learning and computer vision algorithms focused on OCR
  • Performed deploys of data science services
  • Developed integrations with internal systems from other government agencies

Fullstack Developer Intern

Ffit Servicos De Inovacao E Tecnologia
05.2017 - 04.2018
  • Maintained a classroom product that helped teachers assess student's deficits
  • Developed an interaction product to help caregivers get in touch with gastric probes patients
  • Performed maintenance on a product focused on anti tabagism

Education

Nanodegree - Data Streaming

Udacity
04.2021

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Universidade De Fortaleza
07-2019

Associate of Science - Physics

IFCE
01.2014

Skills

  • Python (Programming Language)
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • FastAPI
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Serverless computing
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Apache Kafka
  • Redis
  • AWS DynamoDB
  • Typescript

Certification

  • Nuxt.js - Vue.js on Steroids
  • Architecting on AWS
  • Complete Python Web Course: Build 8 Python Web Apps
  • REST APIs with Flask and Python
  • The Complete Node.js Developer Course (2nd Edition)

Languages

Portuguese
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Upper intermediate (B2)

Publications

Aulas via streaming como método auxiliador no aprendizado de programação

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer - Correlation One
11.2023 - Current
Tech Lead - Zak
02.2022 - 05.2022
Backend Developer - Zak
04.2021 - 05.2023
Data Architect - Sympla
08.2020 - 04.2021
Fullstack Developer - Sympla
07.2019 - 04.2021
Web Developer Intern - EZ Travel - Sistema De Gestão Para O Turismo
09.2018 - 07.2019
Data Science Researcher - DPRF - DEPARTAMENTO DE POLÍCIA RODOVIÁRIA FEDERAL
03.2018 - 09.2018
Fullstack Developer Intern - Ffit Servicos De Inovacao E Tecnologia
05.2017 - 04.2018
Udacity - Nanodegree, Data Streaming
Universidade De Fortaleza - Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
IFCE - Associate of Science, Physics
Yuri Soares