Summary
Mário Sousa is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building production-grade distributed systems and stream-processing platforms, currently at Mastercard after roles at Hitachi Vantara and Aubay Portugal. He blends hands-on Java and cloud-native expertise—Kubernetes-native apps, microservices, micro frontends, Kafka and Flink—with leadership experience as a technical lead on high-throughput financial projects. Comfortable across the stack, he has driven real-time data pipelines and microservice architectures for enterprise clients like Santander Global Tech. A fast learner and entrepreneurially minded coder, he pairs a Master’s in Informatics with practical teaching and systems leadership from his university and early-career roles. Based in Almada, Portugal, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliable, scalable systems and a knack for turning research or ideas into deployable software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará
Master's degree, Informatics, Master's degree, Informatics at ISTEC
Specialist, Systems Engineering, Specialist, Systems Engineering at ESAB - Escola Superior Aberta do Brasil
English, Portuguese, Spanish