Paulo Gonçalves
Senior Software Engineer at Caju
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolPaulo Gonçalves is a Senior Software Engineer based in São Paulo with nine years of experience building backend and web applications, primarily in finance, payments, and electronic trading. He specializes in designing high-performance, low-latency services for money-critical systems — including transaction authorization, card reconciliation, balance controls, and real-time market data pipelines. Proficient in Scala, Python, Kotlin, Kafka, AWS and containerized deployments, he combines deep systems thinking with hands-on work on protocol integrations and multithreaded performance tuning. His background includes scaling distributed microservices, decoupling monoliths, and ensuring high availability in regulated, high-responsibility environments. Paulo also brings research depth from a master's focused on ML-driven optimizations for video encoding, reflecting an aptitude for applying academic techniques to production performance problems. Motivated by collaboration and continuous improvement, he’s comfortable owning complex features end-to-end and integrating with diverse third-party ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Portuguese, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
pHgon/HASH
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
pHgon/projectHEVC-coletaDados
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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