Paulo Merson
Software Architecture Consultant And Trainer at Software Engineering Institute
United States
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Top SchoolPaulo Merson is a software architecture consultant, trainer, and seasoned engineer with over a decade of experience designing and evolving large-scale systems across industry, government, and academia. He blends hands-on coding expertise in Kotlin, Spring Boot, SQL/NoSQL, Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes and AWS with deep practice in API design, microservices and domain-driven design. As an adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon and a longtime contributor at the Software Engineering Institute and University of Brasília, he pairs research-backed techniques with pragmatic guidance for teams and startups. Paulo has mentored thousands globally through workshops, conferences and professional courses, and still prefers purposeful social footprints like StackOverflow over broad social media. Clients value his ability to turn multi-view architecture discussions into implementable roadmaps and practical patterns. Off-duty he’s an avid mountain biker—an activity that mirrors his preference for focused, steady progress both on trails and in code.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Master of Software Engineering, MS, Master of Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBs, Computer Science, Bs, Computer Science at University of Brasília
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
13,923reputation
5.5mreached
132answers
17questions
hibernate
top-5%
multiline
top-5%
docker
top-5%
spring-boot
top-5%
architecture
top-1%
design-patterns
top-5%
Github Skills (68)
transaction10
architecture10
rest10
multiline9
spring-data9
http9
dockerfile9
design-patterns9
sonarqube9
regex9
docker9
java9
spring-boot9
hibernate9
spring-data-jpa9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pmerson/helloBootKotlin
Nov 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
pmerson/ADR-template
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
A md template for Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 6 months
decisionarchitecturerecordsarchitecture-decision-records
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