Andre Rodrigues
Principal Software Engineer at Equinix
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndre Rodrigues is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating billing and distributed systems, currently driving architectural and observability improvements at Equinix Metal from Durham, NC. He blends a design-first mindset with pragmatic engineering—building cross-language instrumentation, defining API-to-billing integration standards, and leading complex billing migrations while staying hands-on in Go, Ruby and Java. His background includes modernizing legacy systems at Google Store and implementing large-scale payment migrations at Groupon, including contributions to the Kill Bill open-source billing platform. Known for mentoring teams and instituting practical design processes, he focuses on simplicity, measurable quality, and the right trade-offs rather than chasing complexity. Colleagues rely on him to turn messy legacy code and unclear requirements into incremental, rollback-safe migration plans. An unusual strength: he pairs low-level implementation skills with product-level empathy, finding answers in unexpected places to keep systems maintainable and observable.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Federal University of Ceara
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (13)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
billing10
subscribe10
su10
subscriber10
payment10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
testing9
junit9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
killbill/killbill
Sep 2015 - Apr 2017
Open-Source Subscription Billing & Payments Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 PRs, 45 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Andre primarily focused on enhancing the KillBill platform's backend functionalities. Their contributions include addressing issues related to payment method authorization, refining the API by adding a prefix for transaction resources, and implementing features like propagating request headers. The user also added metrics for the payment resource and refactored code by removing unused imports.
paymentsecommercein-app-purchasesubscriptionsstorekit
andrenpaes/killbill-commons
Oct 2015 - Jun 2022
Kill Bill reusable Java components
Contributions:6 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 8 months
paymentsazerothcorepaymentjavabill
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