Summary
Demétrio Alves is a senior software engineer and architect with 20+ years of hands-on experience, currently shaping systems at Give Freely and PrimeCode from Santa Catarina, Brazil. He specializes in distributed, event-driven architectures—Kafka, Event Sourcing, CQRS—and modern backend stacks (.NET Core, Node.js/TypeScript, AWS serverless and Kubernetes) and has a proven track record migrating monoliths to microservices. Comfortable leading teams or coding as an individual contributor, he’s served as CTO/co‑founder, team lead, and architecture guild member across startups and enterprises. Fluent in English and used to cross‑continent collaboration, he thrives on complex integration challenges and enjoys turning event streaming into the single source of truth for reliable data platforms. He also brings broad polyglot experience (Python, Go, Azure, Angular/Vue) and a penchant for clean architecture, TDD and pragmatic DDD.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Systems and Electronics Engineering, Diploma Systems and Electronics Engineering at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Pelotas