Michel Aquino is a senior software engineer based in Brazil with over a decade of experience building scalable, high‑performance distributed systems across media, crypto, and adtech. He has led architecture and migration efforts at Globo that cut costs by over 50% and drove major storage and messaging transitions (Cassandra→Bigtable/Firestore, Redis Streams→PubSub) with measurable savings and reliability gains. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping code, Michel has championed SRE practices, mentoring engineers and creating observability solutions that improve decision‑making during peak traffic. His background spans Go, Java/Kotlin/Scala, cloud-native platforms (GCP/AWS), microservices, CI/CD and security tooling—he even helped originate HuskyCI to continuously scan for vulnerabilities. Now at Doximity, he continues to combine deep systems thinking with pragmatic engineering to optimize for cost, performance and maintainability. A former research scholar in optimization, he brings an analytical mindset to architecture and operational tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Lavras
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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Michel Aquino - Senior Software Engineer at Doximity