Summary
Gerson Carlos is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in data engineering, APIs, and real-time systems, currently building a secure Azure-based data lakehouse and analytics stack for Komatsu. He combines deep hands-on skills in Spark/Python and Azure Databricks with infrastructure-as-code (Bicep), DevOps pipelines, and data governance via Azure Purview to enable trustworthy data sharing across international teams. His background spans designing high-throughput Kafka/ksqlDB architectures, Kotlin microservices, and legacy integrations that achieved 10x read improvements and 99% event reliability. Earlier roles include founding an IoT-focused startup building embedded sensor and real-time monitoring solutions, and creating robust test and CI frameworks in Python for mission-critical fleet-management systems. Pragmatic and systems-minded, he bridges low-level legacy constraints with modern cloud-native platforms to deliver measurable performance and reliability gains.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics Engineering, Computer Science, Informatics Engineering, Computer Science at University of Coimbra
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Portuguese