Ícaro Salgado
Senior Software Engineer at Mercado Livre
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolÍcaro Salgado is a Senior Software Engineer with four years of experience building high-throughput, fault-tolerant backend systems at Mercado Livre, the largest e-commerce platform in Latin America. He has owned core Shopping Cart services that process over one million requests per minute and drove transformations from monolith to microservices that cut critical endpoint latency from 350ms to 20ms. Combining a data science background with hands-on backend engineering, Ícaro focuses on availability, performance, and measurable business impact—contributing features that boosted GMV and reactivated inactive customers. He also helped prepare infrastructure for a threefold traffic increase and built backoffice tools that reduced manual work across product teams, demonstrating both technical depth and product-minded execution. Based in São Paulo, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to designing resilient systems under strict SLAs.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado em Engenharia, Engenharia de Materiais, Bacharelado em Engenharia, Engenharia de Materiais at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita FilhoBacharelado em Engenharia, Engenharia de Computação, Bacharelado em Engenharia, Engenharia de Computação at Univesp Oficial
English, PortugueseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Icaro-Salgado/w5g6-desafio-quality
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:16 reviews, 88 commits, 35 PRs in 6 days
Icaro-Salgado/w5g6-desafio-spring
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:34 reviews, 56 commits, 34 PRs in 5 days
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