Álvaro Soares
Founder CEO Senior Software Engineer at Catraca
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolÁlvaro Soares is a founder and senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing web platforms across Brazil's fintech, mobility, and events sectors. He founded and scaled Catraca after developing a solo event management product that evolved into a national and international team-led company, combining product, commercial and technical leadership. Hands-on across the stack, he has migrated legacy Oracle/APEX systems to microservices, built incident management and payments features, and introduced DevOps practices at scale. His work spans PHP/Lumen/Laravel ecosystems, integrations for high-volume services, and practical architecture for operational resilience. Recognized early for security-savvy work (a 2014 Facebook bug bounty), he pairs entrepreneurial grit with disciplined engineering and a knack for turning operational pain points into scalable software.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnólogo em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Tecnologia da Informação, Tecnólogo em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Tecnologia da Informação at Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas Gerais - Campus Almenara
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (11)
guard6
routes5
packagist4
php3
laravel3
keycloak2
javascript-objects1
javascript1
orm1
sql1
database1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alvarofelipems/closestEstablishment
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:49 commits in 3 days
alvarofelipems/cpfcnpj-laravel
Jun 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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