Tech Lead Senior Software Developer at Leap Event Technology
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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João Barbosa is a Tech Lead and senior software developer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and microservices, currently leading the streaming platform at Leap Event Technology from Montreal. He specializes in Go, APIs, and large-scale service architectures, with a proven track record migrating legacy PHP to modern Go services and operating production systems with Docker and Kubernetes. Comfortable across the stack, he has hands-on experience with Python, PHP, TypeScript, Svelte, relational and in-memory datastores, and cloud platforms like GCP. A certified Scrum Master and former programming instructor, he blends technical leadership with product-minded thinking and release management. João actively expands his DevOps and cloud expertise, pairing pragmatic engineering with observability and deploy automation. He stands out for turning long-lived legacy codebases into maintainable, cloud-native services while keeping delivery cadence steady.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ensino médio e Técnico em Informática, Base nacional comum, Informática Gerencial, Ensino médio e Técnico em Informática, Base nacional comum, Informática Gerencial at COTEMIG - Colégio e Faculdade
Graduação, Information & Communication Technology & Software Engineering, Graduação, Information & Communication Technology & Software Engineering at Fontys Hogescholen
The Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais
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