Summary
Eduardo Soares is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sydney with over two decades in IT and 12 years of hands-on experience building large-scale, resilient systems across media, telecoms, finance and travel. He combines deep Java and Kotlin expertise with modern cloud-native practices—reactive programming, Spring Boot microservices, serverless Lambdas, and AWS—while also shipping front-end features with React and TypeScript. At Atlassian and now Qantas he has led features and platform work that bridge real-time messaging, caching and NoSQL stores (Redis, DynamoDB, MongoDB) to improve performance and reliability. He is a pragmatic architect and mentor, holding SCEA/SCJP certifications and a strong background in monitoring, testing and CI/CD that drives observable, production-ready outcomes. Notably, he designed a real-time analytics/monitoring tool at IAG that dramatically reduced incident detection time, reflecting his knack for turning operational pain points into scalable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science bachelor Information Technology, Computer science bachelor Information Technology at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho