Miguel De Barros
Platform Architect - Grand Central
Netherlands
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Top SchoolMiguel De Barros is a platform architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native integration platforms and microservice architectures, currently leading the Grand Central iPaaS initiative at Backbase. He blends a strong applied mathematics background (Cum Laude) with deep expertise in containerization, CI/CD, event-driven systems and tooling like Kubernetes, Kafka, Helm and TypeScript. Miguel has driven open-source financial interoperability through leadership roles with Mojaloop and contributed to projects backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focusing on performance and scalability for payments infrastructure. Known for translating complex domain requirements into pragmatic, production-ready architectures, he thrives at the intersection of API-driven banking modernization and developer experience. Based in the Netherlands, he combines consulting pedigree from firms like Deloitte and Accenture with product-focused platform building, often surfacing non-obvious trade-offs between developer velocity and operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Software Engineering at WitsUniversity of Johannesburg 
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
simulator10
testing10
proxy10
port-scanning10
network-tools10
client-library10
in-progress10
fiddler10
ledger10
api10
settle10
ttk10
aem10
port-forwarding10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mdebarros/sdk-scheme-adapter
Dec 2019 - Jul 2023
A scheme adapter implementation that demonstrates use of the Mojaloop SDK Standard Components to interface a DFSP backend system to a Mojaloop API compliant system
Contributions:191 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 7 months
schemeapischeme-acompliantsdk
mdebarros/central-services-database
Nov 2017 - May 2021
Shared database code for central services
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
postgresqlnosql-databasedatabase
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