Danilo Queiroz is a Staff Software Engineer II with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale backend systems, currently driving architecture and reliability at Confluent in Toronto. He combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems, scalability, and cloud platforms with a pragmatic, business-oriented mindset that prioritizes shipping high-quality software. Danilo has a track record of lifting architecture and reducing complexity—evident from roles where he redesigned event and payments backends, introduced clean architecture, and built offline-capable, encrypted transaction systems. He also excels on the organizational side: shaping team culture, establishing processes, mentoring engineers, and leading hiring and restructures. Comfortable across Python, Java/Scala ecosystems and AWS, he bridges platform-operational work with API and microservice design. Colleagues describe him as someone who balances technical rigor with practical trade-offs and a persistent focus on developer productivity and reliability.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
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Danilo Queiroz - Staff Software Engineer II at Confluent