Otavio Valadares
Lead Software Engineer Observability Platform
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolOtavio Valadares is a Lead Software Engineer specializing in observability and large-scale platform engineering with 10 years of experience building reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure. At Nubank he led design and delivery of an internal log ingestion and query platform processing over 1PB/day and 45GB/s peaks, cutting costs by 50% versus external vendors and earning the company’s top internal award. He combines hands-on systems programming in Golang and Clojure with SRE principles, Kubernetes, AWS, Trino, and Parquet-based storage to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions. Previously he matured cloud platforms and payment backends at GetNinjas, improving developer experience, monitoring, and resiliency across high-traffic services. Brazilian-based with EU citizenship, he pairs technical leadership and mentoring with a pragmatic focus on simplicity and operational excellence. An unassuming detail: he goes by "Octos" in the developer community, hinting at wide-ranging tooling fluency beyond his primary stacks.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science (unfinished), Computer Science (unfinished) at Centro Universitário FEITechnical High School – Programming, Technical High School – Programming at Etec Lauro GomesCollege, Information Technology, College, Information Technology at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SP
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (70)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OtavioHenrique/nvimfiles
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
OtavioHenrique/yalul
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Yet another language to understand languages
Contributions:215 commits, 106 PRs, 135 pushes in 7 months
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