Summary
Jonas Elias is a Senior Software Engineer at PicPay with five years of experience building high-throughput transactional systems and payment integrations. He specializes in connecting digital payment methods (Apple Pay, Google Pay) and acquirers, focusing on resilience, security, and predictable financial flows at scale. Jonas combines practical payments engineering with PCI-DSS aligned compliance controls, reducing operational risk while enabling robust transaction pipelines. With a research background in AI from UFSC, he now applies agent design and Model Context Protocol patterns to add intelligent automation and context-aware capabilities to payment systems. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, he brings a rare blend of payments domain expertise and applied AI research to solve complex, distributed financial engineering problems.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Tecnologia da Informação, Bacharelado Tecnologia da Informação at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Curso Técnico Integrado Tecnologia da Informação, Curso Técnico Integrado Tecnologia da Informação at Instituto Federal Catarinense