Paulo Bezerra is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building Java-based microservices and payment systems from São Paulo, Brazil. He specializes in the Spring ecosystem (Boot, Data, Cloud, Cloud Stream), asynchronous architectures using Apache Kafka and SQS, and end-to-end delivery including Terraform, Kubernetes and Argo CD. His backend work spans relational and NoSQL databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis) with a strong focus on SQL query tuning, caching and observability using New Relic/Dynatrace. At PicPay he has driven products like DDA and Boleto processing while participating in technical recruitment and onboarding. Beyond work, Paulo contributes to open-source educational projects (Java4Noobs, Rustlings, author of Rust4Noobs), helping introduce Brazilian developers to Java and Rust—an indicator of both technical depth and a passion for developer education.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Uninove - Universidade Nove de Julho
Fullstack Developer, Fullstack Developer at Digital House Brasil
Extra Curricular, Java, Extra Curricular, Java at Udemy
Contributions:96 commits, 85 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
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Paulo Bezerra - Senior Software Engineer at PicPay