Summary
James De Souza is a Senior Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 8 years of formal experience and over two decades of hands-on development dating back to the late 1990s. He currently focuses on Kubernetes security monitoring and efficiency tooling at Fairwinds, bringing more than four years of domain-specific experience in cloud-native observability. A proven technical leader and architect, he has led offshore teams, driven pre-sales and hiring, and founded an IT outsourcing business that keeps him close to market needs. His long tenure at MATERA demonstrates deep Java and enterprise web application expertise, plus a track record of coaching and scaling engineering teams. James blends practical operational insight with architecture-level thinking, often translating complex distributed-system problems into actionable, team-deliverable solutions. Trained in computer science at UNICAMP, he pairs strong academic grounding with a pragmatic, entrepreneurial approach to building secure, efficient platforms.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Technical High School, Data processing, Technical High School, Data processing at COTIL - UNICAMP
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Portuguese