Lucas Firmino
Senior Software Engineer at Zup Innovation
Alagoas, Brazil
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Top SchoolLucas Firmino is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience designing and delivering resilient, cloud-native systems across fintech and SaaS domains. Based in Alagoas, Brazil, he combines hands-on development in Java Spring and Python with solutions architecture, data engineering, and FinOps practices to optimize cost and performance on AWS. His recent roles at Zup Innovation and PicPay highlight expertise in microservices, Kafka-based streaming, fraud prevention, and real-time applications backed by observability and QA tooling. Lucas routinely leads proof-of-concepts, code reviews, and onboarding, driving engineering quality through SonarQube, test automation, and metrics-driven OKRs. He brings a pragmatic product mindset from full-stack PHP and Erlang experience to modern distributed architectures, and holds a postgraduate specialization in Software Engineering. An avid practitioner of clean code and continuous improvement, he often bridges data and application layers to turn complex requirements into reliable production services.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Pós-graduação Lato Sensu - Especialização, Engenharia de Software, Pós-graduação Lato Sensu - Especialização, Engenharia de Software at Centro Universitário Cesmac
English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
messaging9
xmpp9
brokers9
stun9
matrix9
sip9
jabber9
chat9
erlang8
ejabberd8
voip8
server8
pubsub8
iot7
broker7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
qtxrepositorio/qtx
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:213 commits in 1 year 1 month
adlerke/challenge-mobile-react-native
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:4 commits in 20 days
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