Helton Marques is a Senior Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating high-throughput, cloud-native services across GCP and AWS. He has taken full ownership of Tier-1 systems at scale—handling over 10 million requests per minute at Ring—and led complex migrations such as PostgreSQL to DynamoDB. Skilled in Go, distributed systems, observability and blockchain indexing, he built sub-second Ethereum indexers at Injective Labs and developer-friendly billing/notification backends supporting 100k+ message CRM campaigns. Helton contributes to open-source (notably enhancements to the popular mailgun-go client) and brings embedded-linux and firmware experience from earlier roles, giving him uncommon depth across hardware-to-cloud stacks. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, he’s pragmatic about trade-offs, enjoys diving deep into business domains, and consistently delivers reliable, testable systems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Technician, Telecommunications, Electronics Technician, Telecommunications at Instituto Federal do Paraná - IFPR (Curitiba)
Pós Graduação, Post Graduation in Quality and Software Engineering, Pós Graduação, Post Graduation in Quality and Software Engineering at Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
Computer Engineering, Hardware / Software, Computer Engineering, Hardware / Software at Universidade Positivo
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Helton primarily contributed to the Go library for sending mail with the Mailgun API, focusing on enhancements to the core functionality. Their work included adding the ability to set the API base URL, which provides greater flexibility in configuring the library. Additional contributions include the implementation of offline test cases and the integration of an ensure provider to unit tests, improving the library's testability and reliability. The user also added a feature to specify the domain used for sending messages.
Contributions:15 reviews, 106 commits, 34 PRs in 7 years 8 months
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