Paulo Borges
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulo Borges is a backend engineer with nine years of experience designing distributed, event-driven systems and improving developer experience for production platforms. He has driven platform migrations, automated CI/CD pipelines, and built tooling that reduced manual effort—most notably auto-generating references for 2,000+ configuration properties and cutting deployment times by 70%. At Redpanda he contributed to CLI usability and helped coordinate cross-team delivery for a flagship Agentic Data Plane feature while integrating AI-driven automation (Claude Code) into release workflows. He has led teams building Kafka-backed microservices, end-to-end order processing pipelines, and analytics integrations, and regularly peer-reviewed C++, Go, and Python changes across large engineering orgs. Based in Rio de Janeiro, Paulo combines deep systems engineering with a practical focus on documentation, developer self-service, and shipping reliable, observable releases. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of translating complex codebases into consumable developer tooling that reduces cognitive load and accelerates delivery.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Bachelors, Computer Science, Computer Science Bachelors, Computer Science at Universidade Federal Fluminense
Github Skills (13)
redpanda10
command-line-interface10
kafka10
go10
streaming10
command-line10
cli10
configuration-management9
documentation8
cpp4
container3
kubernetes3
kubernetes-pods3
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:182 reviews, 13 commits, 32 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily contributed to the Redpanda project by adapting Cobra messages, fixing typos, and updating flag descriptions. Their work focused on modifying command-line interface flags and descriptions, specifically within the `rpk` tool, which interacts with Redpanda's core functionalities. They also updated configuration descriptions and updated help descriptions to match the documentation. These changes indicate a focus on improving the usability and documentation of the Redpanda's CLI tool.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
Deflaimun/rest-table
Nov 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:36 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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