Summary
Alex Souza is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput systems, most recently shaping checkout and account platforms at iFood that process millions of orders and serve hundreds of millions of users. He specializes in migrating monoliths to cloud-native microservices, observability, and clean code design, combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership across Agile teams. His background spans full-stack work from Rails and React to large distributed services, and he has driven platform reliability improvements and performance tuning at scale. At smaller startups like Ribon he helped establish engineering culture and learning initiatives, showing a knack for mentoring and team-building beyond pure implementation. Now at TheGuarantors, he brings pragmatic architecture judgment informed by production-facing metrics and a customer-first mindset. Colleagues describe him as a continuous learner who pairs rigorous engineering practices with a pragmatic focus on delivering customer value.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Graduating, Computer Engineering, Graduating, Computer Engineering at Universidade de Brasília
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French