Alex Caranha
Specialist Software Engineer at Zamp
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlex Caranha is a Specialist Software Engineer based in Rio de Janeiro with over 12 years of hands-on experience and more than a decade delivering mission-critical systems in finance. He combines a Master's in Digital Signal Processing with deep expertise in backend, high-performance architectures, and multi-cloud modernization (AWS, GCP, Azure), routinely improving scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. At Stefanini and Vinci Partners he led legacy-to-.NET modernizations, optimized APIs, defined security standards with JWT/Keycloak, and orchestrated large data migrations to reduce cloud costs. Comfortable across stacks—from Python and .NET to TypeScript/React—he pairs practical mentorship and code-quality advocacy with a researcher’s rigor from his academic background. Notably, his career blends low-level numerical rigor with pragmatic engineering, making him adept at turning complex financial calculations into reliable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Digital Signal Processing (2010 – 2013), Digital Signal Processing, Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Digital Signal Processing (2010 – 2013), Digital Signal Processing at UFRJ – Federal University of Rio de JaneiroTechnical High School in Computer Science, Technical High School in Computer Science at Fundação Nokia de Ensino - BrazilBachelor’s in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at UFAM – Federal University of Amazonas
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Github Skills (56)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AlexCaranha/Instrumenta
Oct 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
AlexCaranha/DB-Solfeggios
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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