Alex Rios
Principal Engineer at Memed
Paraná, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Rios is a principal engineer from Paraná, Brazil with 17+ years designing high-throughput, cloud-native systems—especially in Go—across fintech, telecom, and gaming. He combines hands-on architecture for large-scale services with unconventional system designs that prioritize testability, explicitness, and quality. A seasoned mentor and technical reviewer, he shapes teams and publications alike, serving on advisory boards and reviewing technical books. He’s an active community builder—organizing Go meetups in Curitiba and speaking at events like GopherCon Brazil—while also enjoying embedded systems and unusual integrations that influence pragmatic production choices. Currently leading engineering at Memed after senior staff roles at Stone, he’s known for turning complex constraints into maintainable, high-impact solutions.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Colégio Santa MônicaMBA, Software Engineering, MBA, Software Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirograduate, Information Technology, graduate, Information Technology at UniverCidade (Faculdade da Cidade)Information Technology, Information Technology at Caelum RJ
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (37)
brazil10
kotlin-language10
brasil10
backend10
aprender9
kotlin9
kotlin-android9
kotlin-multiplatform9
endpoint9
kotlin-extensions9
kotlin-library9
go8
simulator8
system-programming8
job-scheduling7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexrios/alexrios
Jul 2020 - Nov 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
kotlin-br/kotlin-no-backend
Feb 2020 - Sep 2021
Lista de empresas que utilizam Kotlin no Brasil.
Contributions:1 review, 21 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 7 months
kotlinbackendkotlin-multiplatformkotlin-brkotlin-language
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