Álvaro Mercês
Staff Software Engineer at Commonwealth Bank
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolÁlvaro Mercês is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sydney with 13+ years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native platforms and web applications across enterprise and product teams. He has driven serverless and developer-platform initiatives at Atlassian (Forge) and now leads platform engineering at Commonwealth Bank, blending hands-on coding with architectural leadership. Comfortable across the full stack—from Node.js and MEAN-stack apps to AWS-backed services and enterprise Java/.NET systems—he excels at delivering secure, compliant features in cross-functional settings. Known for improving developer experience and shaping internal frameworks, he brings a pragmatic focus on performance and maintainability informed by roles at THE ICONIC, Vayon, IBM and others.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (24)
animation9
angularjs7
html6
fade6
nodejs6
state-machine6
prototypes6
css6
jquery6
forloop6
javascript6
trend5
router5
typescript4
aws-lambda2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
asantos31/sun
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:21 PRs, 18 pushes, 22 branches in 14 days
alvarodms/node-ro
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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