Alex Soares
Staff Software Engineer at PicPay
Pernambuco, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlex Soares is a Staff Software Engineer from Pernambuco, Brazil, with 11 years of experience specializing in large-scale Android architecture, performance optimization, and mobile security. He has led Android teams and architectural initiatives at major Brazilian tech companies including PicPay, iFood, and C6 Bank, driving modularization, MVVM/MVI/Clean Architecture adoption, and efficient code review practices. Known for mentoring engineers and conducting hiring interviews, Alex blends hands-on development with a strong focus on system design and reliability across multi-repo Android projects. He pairs formal studies in software architecture, data science, and cybersecurity with practical expertise in modern Kotlin tooling (Coroutines, Flow, Jetpack Compose) and dependency management. A security enthusiast and occasional instructor, he brings both practitioner-level depth and an eye for scalable, secure mobile platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art PhotographiqueSoftware Development (Technical Studies) Software Development - IT, Software Development (Technical Studies) Software Development - IT at UnibratecPontifical Catholic University of Paraná
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
android9
kotlin9
annotation-processor9
android-multi-module9
espresso8
instrumentation7
kotlin-library6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AlexSoaresDeSiqueira/arctouch-challenge-android
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
code-challenge-android
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
android
AlexSoaresDeSiqueira/GitHubIntegration
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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