Summary
André Branco is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 17 years of experience leading engineering teams and shipping web-scale applications, currently at Kape Technologies. He brings deep Ruby on Rails and Java background, strong DevOps familiarity from early multithreaded server work and small-team server administration, and a practiced emphasis on TDD, Scrum and Agile culture. International experience includes instructor and trainee roles in Norway where he taught Java and helped migrate course materials to e-learning platforms in Norwegian, highlighting his cross-cultural communication skills. André has moved up from hands-on development and team lead roles at Private Internet Access and Replay Gaming to strategic management while retaining an engineer’s attention to code quality and delivery. He combines legacy enterprise Java know-how with modern web stacks and pragmatic leadership that fosters continuous improvement.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
§ Norwegian language and culture for foreign students, § Norwegian language and culture for foreign students at University of Stavanger
§ Secondary school course in Technical Data Processing, IT, § Secondary school course in Technical Data Processing, IT at Instituto Tecnológico de Barueri, Brazil