Jerônimo Backes
Founder - CTO at Univocity
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolJerônimo Backes is a founder and CTO with 11+ years building high-performance Java backends, distributed systems, and low-latency solutions from Adelaide. He designs core architectures, reusable libraries and data-integration tooling, and has repeatedly delivered dramatic performance improvements—once cutting a batch job from eight hours to under a minute. Comfortable rescuing legacy systems, he also builds open-source infrastructure (notably substantial backend work on uniVocity’s univocity-trader) and custom trading and caching components. His experience spans mission-critical finance, banking and enterprise projects, including distributed caching across countries and complex database migrations. Holding a master’s in software engineering, he combines hands-on algorithmic optimization with leadership in hiring, mentoring and cross-border engineering collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidade de Santa Cruz do SulMaster's degree, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Software Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
English
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Github Skills (16)
account-management10
javas10
concurrent-programming10
csv10
object-oriented-programming10
back-end-development10
java10
jtable9
testing9
parsing9
maven6
apache-commons-csv6
opencsv6
large-files6
android6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
uniVocity/univocity-trader
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
open-source trading framework for java, supports backtesting and live trading with exchanges
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 481 commits, 82 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jerônimo appears to be responsible for significant portions of the backend functionality, as evidenced by the initial creation and subsequent modifications to the AccountManager class and its associated functionalities. They've introduced classes and interfaces like ClientAccount and TradingManager. These commits include fund allocation, balance management, and order tracking, along with changes to email logging. The user's contributions are central to the core trading logic within the open-source trading framework for Java.
trading-frameworkalgorithmic-tradingexchangetrading-botexchanges
uniVocity/envlp-cardano-wallet
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:72 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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