Summary
Luiz Souza is a seasoned software specialist from Minas Gerais with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering backend systems, currently shaping solutions at PagBank. He brings deep Java and Kotlin expertise across microservices, message-driven architectures (SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka) and observability stacks like New Relic and Grafana, helping teams translate business needs into robust technical designs. Through roles at Invillia and prior consultancies he has balanced feature delivery with technical debt reduction and operational monitoring, ensuring systems are both functional and measurable in production. Early career work on legacy stacks (VB6, Java EE) gave him practical fluency in modernizing older systems while keeping them running—hence the self-aware Github quip about “gambiarra.” He combines implementation, architecture and on-call sensibilities, making him effective at bridging product, dev teams and SRE concerns. Passionate about pragmatic solutions, he favors reliability and observability over theoretical perfection.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado, Sistemas de Informação, 9.5, Bacharelado, Sistemas de Informação, 9.5 at Faculdade Metodista Granbery
Portuguese, English