Nielsen Gonçalves
Tech Lead at Superhuman
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNielsen Gonçalves is a tech lead based in Berlin with nine years of hands-on experience designing and running large-scale, cloud-native systems for fintech and marketplace platforms. He specializes in Kotlin and Java and has led migrations to microservices, AWS/Terraform provisioning, and observability improvements using OpenTelemetry, Datadog and New Relic to maintain high uptime SLAs. Nielsen has driven payments and card-issuing initiatives that support millions of users and tens of millions of annual transactions, coordinating complex integrations with PSPs, card manufacturers and networks like Mastercard. He pairs deep technical ownership with mentorship and process improvement—authoring RFCs, leading on-call rotations, and lifting team capability through pairing and reviews. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous business requirements into resilient architectures that scale across multiple markets.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFUBachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Centro Universitário da Grande Dourados
Portuguese, English, German
Stackoverflow
362reputation
34kreached
20answers
3questions
Github Skills (65)
laravel10
php10
react-button9
laravel-framework9
sensor8
transactional7
google-pay6
spring-rest6
testing6
upsert6
payment6
foundationdb6
javascript6
momentjs6
embeddable6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nielsenmg/ezcache
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:50 commits, 4 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 month
phpeasy-phpphp-cachecache
nielsenmg/phpstorm-settings
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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