Paulo Avelar
Software Engineering Manager at Costco Wholesale
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulo Avelar is a seasoned software engineering manager with 11 years of leadership experience and a long technical career stretching back to early C++ systems work. Currently at Costco after managing reporting and insights at LTK, he has consistently led teams through scaling, vendor negotiations, and delivery of data-driven products across retail, gaming, healthcare, and aviation. Paulo pairs hands-on architecture and mentoring—shaped at Microsoft, Nintendo, and Rogue Wave—with operational rigor developed while doubling engineering teams and authoring company-wide career guides. He has shipped high-throughput SaaS and real-time systems (including WebSockets solutions handling billions of events) and driven measurable performance and measurement initiatives. Known for blending coaching with technical stewardship, he often codifies processes that become organizational standards. Based in Greater Seattle, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach to turning complex requirements into maintainable, scalable software.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electric Engineering and Telecomunications, Bachelor's Degree Electric Engineering and Telecomunications at Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações - Inatel
typescript, c++, python, ruby, java, scala, python
Github Skills (65)
rest8
http-api8
xml8
java8
sdk7
api7
parser7
json7
jax-rs7
mock-server7
mocking7
media7
stubbing7
dropwizard7
jetty7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
phavelar/boot-camper
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 2 years 9 months
spring-bootsample-projectsspringjavagoodies
phavelar/ax-random-tweet
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 day
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