Summary
Lucas Rocha is a Software Engineer from Rio de Janeiro with 8 years of experience building back-end systems, currently contributing to PicPay after roles at Banco Original and earlier startups. He specializes in Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem but has broad full-stack experience—having shipped PHP/Vue.js e-commerce platforms and Ruby on Rails educational and competency-management tools. His background spans REST API migrations, database work with PostgreSQL/MariaDB, and hands-on support and infrastructure tasks from his early IT support and cabling volunteer work. Comfortable in both product and research settings, he combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for learning new frameworks and improving legacy systems. Notably, his career moves show a pattern of evolving from support and academic research into scalable bank-grade backend development.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado, Sistemas de informação, Bacharelado, Sistemas de informação at IFF - Instituto Federal Fluminense