Alessandro Costa
Senior Software Engineer at Monarch Money
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Costa is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems across fintech, payments, and high-traffic consumer platforms. He’s been a first engineering hire and later tech lead at Latitud, led payment infrastructure work at Engine, and now contributes to aggregations at Monarch Money—demonstrating a consistent focus on reliability and performance. Proficient in Go, Node.js and cloud-native stacks, he has a track record of dramatic API performance improvements and shipping end-to-end products from design to production. Based in São Paulo, he combines hands-on engineering with team leadership and hiring experience, mentoring engineers while driving core delivery. A practical problem-solver motivated by real-world impact, he favors pragmatic optimizations that unlock measurable business value.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Pará
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
browser-extension10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
youtube10
camera10
firefox10
chrome10
blocked10
javascript9
browser9
safari-extension9
scraper8
geo6
api6
userstyle6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AlessandroFC15/SortQuora
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
AlessandroFC15/QuoteOfTheDay
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
Repository for the project of the book Grails in Action
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
in-actiongrails
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