Summary
David Dias is a senior software engineer with 14+ years of professional experience and a 16-year programming background, blending strong backend expertise in Go, Java, PostgreSQL and cloud-native systems with a unique foundation in ecology and statistical analysis. He has led migrations from legacy stacks to Go, introduced event-driven architectures with Kafka, and bootstrapped company-wide scaffolds, CI/CD and Kubernetes deployments that accelerated delivery and onboarding. Comfortable across GCP and AWS, he has driven payment integrations, ERP connectivity and high-throughput microservices at scale for fintech and data-intensive platforms. David’s background in biodiversity standards and R-driven analysis gives him uncommon domain fluency for building data models and metadata-aware services, making him adept at turning scientific requirements into production-grade software. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring and documentation habits that keep teams productive and resilient.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology, General, Bachelor's degree, Biology, General at Centro Universitário do Leste de Minas Gerais
Master's degree, Ecology, Master's degree, Ecology at Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia