Summary
Francisco Thiago is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native backend systems, currently shaping scalable solutions at Volkswagen Group Digital Solutions from Lisbon. He specializes in Java and Spring, combined with pragmatic AWS expertise and infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK/CloudFormation to deliver reliable production services. A strong advocate of test-driven development, he routinely integrates testcontainers, LocalStack, Mockito and JUnit 5 to raise automated test coverage and reduce maintenance costs. His background spans legacy modernization, microservices and cost-optimizations in AWS—once cutting EC2 costs by 50% while improving deployment automation for MLaaS. Colleagues rely on him for practical architecture guidance and for introducing design patterns that improve long-term code quality. Fluent across Java, Python and cloud tooling, he blends hands-on engineering with a continuous-improvement mindset.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Bachelor of Applied Computing BSc (Hons) in Applied Computing, Bachelor of Applied Computing BSc (Hons) in Applied Computing at Waterford Institute of Technology
Portuguese, English