Summary
André Gonçalves is a seasoned software engineer and team lead with 16 years of experience building high-throughput, distributed systems and search platforms. He brings deep expertise in JVM languages (Scala, Java, Kotlin), scripting languages, C/C++, and frameworks like Finagle and Akka, having delivered production systems handling millions of requests per day. André has led projects such as a real-time hotel search engine (Elasticsearch, Redis, Scala) and large-scale event/message platforms powering chat, chatbots and critical system events. Comfortable across DevOps, OS internals and big data stacks (Hadoop, Kafka), he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership from startups to international teams. Based in Rio de Janeiro with a master’s in distributed systems, he’s equally at home optimizing low-level performance and shaping product-oriented engineering teams.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
B.Sc Artificial Intelligence/Board games, B.Sc Artificial Intelligence/Board games at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU
English