André Lucas
Software Engineer at Programando em Marte
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Lucas is a software engineer with nearly a decade of experience building high-throughput, data-intensive back-end systems using Java, Spring Boot, AWS and Kubernetes. He has led architecture and reliability improvements that cut event loss by over 98% and introduced autoscaling (KEDA) to stabilize peak loads, demonstrating a practical focus on observability and resilient streaming designs. As a former iFood and consultant engineer he blends hands-on microservice development, TDD, and platform migrations with mentoring and team enablement—having rolled out GitLab and developer automation at clients. He maintains an active technical presence through his site and a learning journal, and contributes database-focused work in community backend challenges, emphasizing schema design and performance tuning. Currently based in Lisbon, he also founded "Programando em Marte" to make programming accessible and document real-world engineering tradeoffs. Practical, architecture-minded, and community-oriented, he thrives where high volume meets tight reliability requirements.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information System Information Technology, Bachelor of Information System Information Technology at Faculdade Maurício de NassauMaster of Business Administration - MBA Software Architecture, Master of Business Administration - MBA Software Architecture at Full Cycle
Github Skills (8)
schema-design10
postgresql10
sql10
schema10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
indices9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zanfranceschi/rinha-de-backend-2024-q1
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
Repositório da 2ª edição da Rinha de Backend
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:5 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:André's contributions primarily involve database schema design and SQL scripting within the context of a backend challenge. Their work focuses on creating and modifying tables, defining data types, and implementing database functions. The user's commits showcase a focus on setting up the initial database structure, including creating tables for clients and transactions, inserting initial data, and implementing database-level logic for transactions and historical data. The final commit includes UNLOGGED tables and an index to optimize database performance.
andrelucasti/mono-coin-wallet
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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