Henrique Goulart is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years building high-throughput backend systems, distributed services, and data pipelines for startups and global companies. He has hands-on expertise in Rust, Scala, Python/Django, Kafka, PostgreSQL and cloud-native deployments (AWS, Kubernetes, NixOS), and has optimized systems processing tens of thousands of messages per second. His work spans payments and Bitcoin Lightning tooling, streaming ETL at Trivago, and compliance automation, consistently improving performance and observability with Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog. Henrique combines research-depth—an MSc focused on state machine replication and checkpointing—with production experience, having implemented novel tooling like Lightning payment managers and contributed a Spark memory-leak fix upstream. Based in São Paulo, he prefers pragmatic, metrics-driven solutions that keep millions of users reliably served.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
High School Diploma Informatics, High School Diploma Informatics at SATC - Associação Beneficente da Indústria Carbonífera de Santa Catarina
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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