Abmar Barros
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Block
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAbmar Barros is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years designing and shipping distributed systems, currently driving platform work at Block after senior roles at Square and Amazon. He blends research-grade expertise in failure detection, grid and federated cloud middleware with practical full‑stack chops—having built Java, Node, and Python APIs and led mobile app development for Android and iOS. A co-founder of Coddy and former lead on Fogbow and OurGrid, he has a rare mix of academic depth (MSc in Distributed Computing) and startup/product experience delivering CaaS and hosted solutions. At Amazon he helped evolve the Checkout pipeline end‑to‑end, demonstrating an ability to move complex, user‑facing flows to production at scale. Colleagues know him for translating distributed-systems research into resilient, operational services and for shipping pragmatic interoperability and storage solutions that tolerate real-world failures.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master Distributed computing, Master Distributed computing at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
http-api10
share-files10
java9
kotlin9
server9
api9
openjdk9
dynamodb8
javascript-client8
dynamodbmapper7
solidworks7
android7
azerothcore7
nextcloud6
android-library6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
buddycloud/buddycloud-pusher
Aug 2012 - Aug 2014
Push notifications and emails
Contributions:83 commits in 2 years
pushemailemailspush-notificationsnotifications
abmargb/jamppa
Feb 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
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