Summary
Lucas Albuquerque is a Back End Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating high-demand microservices for global users, currently helping OLX Group scale resilient services using Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS. He has a strong financial-systems background from roles at EPAM and Luxoft where he led teams, coordinated production releases, and designed distributed solutions with a focus on observability and automated testing. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and people manager, Lucas has hands-on experience setting up team structures, coaching engineers, and translating business requirements into reliable architectures. His engineering approach emphasizes metrics-driven debugging, messaging patterns (SNS/SQS) and pragmatic use of cloud-native tooling to improve performance and uptime. Fluent in cross-cultural environments, he studied and worked between Brazil and Spain, bringing practical international experience and client-facing negotiation skills. Curious and continual learner by nature, he enjoys applying new knowledge to solve real user problems rather than chasing tech for its own sake.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Ingeniería informática, Bachelor's degree, Ingeniería informática at Universidad de Málaga
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 81.2/100, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 81.2/100 at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
English, Portuguese, Spanish