Alan Soares
Lead Software Developer at Thoughtworks
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlan Soares is a Lead Software Developer and PhD student in Computer Science with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems and AI-enabled products. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—spanning Java, Golang, Python, TypeScript, Flutter and modern frontend frameworks—with technical leadership roles at banks and consultancies and a current position at Thoughtworks. As a founder of Theia Deep Vision he applied computer vision and LLMs in a production surveillance platform, reflecting a rare combination of research-grade AI and pragmatic engineering. He has led large cloud migrations and microservices designs using Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Camel and Kubernetes across AWS, GCP and Azure, often delivering dramatic performance and cost improvements. Alan’s research background and competition wins in simulated robotics (RoboCup) underpin his strengths in ML, computer vision and generative models, while his GitHub and academic work show an ongoing commitment to advancing applied AI. Based in São Paulo, he positions himself as a “generalist specialist” who dives deep into new technologies while mentoring teams to ship resilient, scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Systems Computer Science and Applications, Bachelor of Information Systems Computer Science and Applications at Universidade do Estado da BahiaDoctor of Computer Science - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Computer Science - PhD Artificial Intelligence at Universidade Federal da Bahia
English, German, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (55)
mws8
mercadopago7
angularjs7
gesture-recognition7
skeleton7
oracle6
que6
azure-media-services6
api6
gateway6
sql6
card6
rio6
facebook6
javascript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alanssoares/aws-gateway-typescript
Jun 2017 - Oct 2019
A typescript definition to use aws api-gateway
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 4 months
api-gatewayapiaws-apitypescript-definitiongateway
alanssoares/simplify-c
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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