Summary
Marcos Costa is a veteran software engineer and technical lead with two decades of hands-on experience building enterprise Java systems and leading teams through complex integrations and performance-driven projects. Based in Spokane, WA, he currently leads a five-person Agile team at Availity, driving REST service design, code quality standards, and tooling improvements like Jenkins dashboards that cut build-fix time. His background spans founding and growing teams for large clients, delivering high-throughput batch and search solutions (SOLR/Elasticsearch), and geospatial work with GeoServer/OpenLayers, showing comfort across backend, middleware and front-end stacks. Known for translating urgent business needs into pragmatic, testable implementations, he also authors internal clean-code standards and helps select new technologies as part of a cross-team tech-leads group.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor's degree, Industrial and Product Design at Universidade Paulista
Highschool, Information Technology, Highschool, Information Technology at Instituto Tecnico Bacelar (IT Technical highschool)
portuguese (brazil), English