Summary
John Alves is a pragmatic software engineer and tech lead from Rio Grande do Norte with eight years of experience building full‑stack web systems using Node.js, React, SQL, and AWS. He has driven impactful platform migrations and architecture modernizations—most recently leading CockroachDB-to-AWS RDS PostgreSQL consolidations and an IAM rework from Keycloak to AWS Cognito that improved scalability and security. At Gupy and Aarin he shipped candidate-facing products and payment/charge management interfaces, pairing front-end UX work with backend reliability, observability and cost reduction. Founder of a digital vaccine card startup and former research engineer in health tech, he brings domain experience in biomedical engineering and health systems integration. A certified Scrum Fundamentals practitioner fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish, he balances people leadership (regular 1:1s and PDIs) with hands-on coding and process improvements like multistaging Gitflows. He’s notable for blending product empathy from his health-tech roots with cloud-native operational improvements that cut support volume and increase deployment predictability.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Técnico Informática, Técnico Informática at IFRN
English, Portuguese