Alex Almeida

Work within a payment integration team focused on Brazilian operations, primarily dealing with Pix integrations and high-throughput financial transactions <br /> - Develop backend services utilizing Event-Driven Architecture (C# / .NET) on AWS infrastructure, heavily leveraging DynamoDB, Dynamo Streams, SNS, and SQS. - Champion the adoption of AI tools across the entire software engineering pipeline and structure development workflows using Spec Driven Development (SDD) alongside `spec-kit`. - Perform thorough analysis and design of architectural documentation—translating business requirements into system diagrams, planning, and optimizing payment solutions strictly compliant with financial regulations. - Contribute to a critical integration project with the Brazilian Central Bank (Banco Central) and homologated platforms to establish robust fraud prevention, detection, and reporting flows. - Collaborate continuously with global cross-functional teams, including key stakeholders and engineers in the UK and China.

Work on a major project for a U.S. health-insurance company, contributing to a large-scale initiative to decompose a legacy monolith into a distributed microservices ecosystem - Design, build, and maintain microservices for large-file processing using Kafka Streams on AWS (MSK, ElastiCache, S3, Lambda functions, SES). - Develop and support microservices for health-covered members' data storage and optimized search operations. - Perform thorough and constructive code reviews, collaborating closely with teammates and external contributors. - Continuously refine code quality, applying best practices, performance tuning, and maintainability principles. - Produce clear technical documentation and architectural diagrams to support developers, consumers, architects, QA, and product stakeholders. - Focus on testability and reliability to improve system resilience and reduce regressions. - Use Helm charts and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to standardize deployments and simplify environment consistency. - Monitor application health using New Relic with custom metrics, dashboards, and alerting strategies. - Continuously evaluate service performance and optimize resource usage, leveraging Kubernetes autoscaling and infrastructure capabilities. - Support and coordinate backlog management in partnership with the product team, actively participating in agile ceremonies.

Crafted and maintained microservices for the recommendations ecosystem - Managed diverse database structures, including MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, SQL, Kafka, and Redis. - Performed maintenance of geo-distributed applications. - Orchestrated the pipeline workflow for seamless CI/CD operations. - Leveraged Helm charts and Infrastructure-as-Code to streamline deployment processes. - Championed the evolution and deployment of services with zero downtime. - Vigilantly monitored production applications with high throughput, utilizing tools like New Relic, Grafana, and Kibana. - Crafted comprehensive dashboards to facilitate both technical and business stakeholders in monitoring services. - Continuously evaluated service performance and optimized resource allocation, leveraging Kubernetes infrastructure for optimal scaling. - Actively participated in agile ceremonies to uphold team productivity and morale. - Fostered open communication and a supportive atmosphere within the team, enabling constructive feedback and growth.

Maintained and evolved integration applications for internal and external processes - Performed refactoring and optimizations of legacy services focusing on security and performance. - Wrote documentation with technical specifications and guidelines for third-party integrations. - Helped and supported partners throughout the integrations development process. - Managed projects using Scrum methodology. - Worked with Oracle, MS SQL, and MongoDB. - Gained first exposure to microservice architecture, helping manage the Jenkins pipeline for CI/CD. - Helped manage and define guidelines for NuGet package version control. - Worked with Node.js and Angular applications.

Responsible for managing and leading the development team based on the Scrum methodology - Helped control and prioritize the backlog for software maintenance and evolution. - Designed and modeled integration solutions for the company's ERP ecosystem. - Defined guidelines and strategies for application versioning using Team Foundation Server (TFS). - Developed mobile apps using the Xamarin Framework and handled the whole release flow to app stores. - Helped manage infrastructure resources such as Azure and Team Foundation Server. - Showcased, demonstrated, and mentored other departments regarding new products and features. - Championed the adoption of TDD in the development process.

Worked with e-billing applications for an Irish business - Responsible for developing and maintaining front-end apps with Ajax and jQuery. - Implemented system integration using XML and XSLT (XML transformations). - Developed customized ASP.NET web controls, working closely with the QA team. - Worked full-time in a native English-speaking environment.