Summary
Alex Garzão is a software engineering specialist with over 20 years of hands-on experience and a decade focused on backend performance and architecture in fintech and high-throughput platforms. He has repeatedly delivered large performance wins—reducing service restarts from hours to under a minute, cutting report generation from 20 minutes to 10 seconds, and designing ledgers and BFF frameworks that improved throughput by orders of magnitude. Comfortable from embedded C/C++ to Golang at scale, he combines pragmatic system design (CQRS, Event Sourcing, DDD-lite) with developer tooling and platform thinking, having proposed internal IDP, messaging and SDUI platforms. His work is production-proven across PicPay, Stone, Avenue and others, and includes open-source projects like the-amazing-ledger and webhook-consumer. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he pairs an MSc in Computer Science with a talent for turning complex, error-prone processes into simple, automatable, and highly observable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer science, MSc Computer science at Unisinos
High School Tecnólogo em Processamento de Dados, High School Tecnólogo em Processamento de Dados at Colégio Cristo Redentor