Diego De Sousa Lima
Senior Software Engineer at iFood
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego De Sousa Lima is a Senior Software Engineer based in São Paulo with nine years of experience building cloud-native, high-performance backend systems using Go, Kotlin, and Java. At iFood he leads backend architecture for the beverages vertical, designing resilient, observable services that serve millions and driving major migrations such as moving over 6 million records from ScyllaDB to DynamoDB. He combines deep distributed-systems expertise with a product-minded approach, having eliminated SPOFs, improved observability with Prometheus/Datadog, and launched AI-driven features like iFood’s “Dora.” Diego is also a technical educator and content creator, publishing Golang and backend courses to share practical knowledge with the community. His background spans fintech-grade stability work for Caixa and government-scale systems, giving him a rare mix of performance, reliability, and operational experience. Colleagues know him for pragmatic architectural leadership and a "now is better than never" mentality that favors shipping impactful solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Information Tecnology, Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Information Tecnology at Federal University of Piauí (UFPI)
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (65)
django-admin8
api8
rest-api8
api-client8
aprender8
projeto8
api-platform7
django7
brazil7
async7
connected7
pdf-generation7
effort7
python7
kotlin7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
diegofsousa/daptnod
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
DAPTNOD is a simple Django web application that creates quick notes that can be shared via a URL.
Contributions:1 release, 42 PRs, 37 pushes in 9 months
notespythondjango-frameworkdjangoweb-application
diegofsousa/HandsOnSistemasInteligentes
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:88 PRs, 131 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
phpdisciplinariosistemasjava
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