João Trombeta is a Senior Platform Engineer with a decade of experience building back-end and distributed systems, currently advancing platform reliability at Stack Overflow. A computer science graduate based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, he combines pragmatic engineering with a research background in Parallel State Machine Replication and prototype key-value stores. João is passionate about high-availability architectures, efficient compute utilization, and clean engineering practices, often bridging theory and production to solve real-world scalability problems. His practical stack experience includes Java Spring Boot, Python, PostgreSQL, microservices on AWS, and CI/CD pipelines. Notably, his early research work produced a simulator and C++ storage prototype that informed his approach to consistency and performance in concurrent systems. He favors using the right tools for the problem rather than chasing trends, and is driven by the next hard systems challenge to tackle.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Graduation, Computer Science, Graduation, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
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