Paulo Poffal is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and leading teams through complex financial and onboarding products. He has driven high-impact work at Nubank—doubling corporate customer onboarding and architecting cost and performance improvements across Business Accounts—while also leading payment migrations to event-driven microservices at Sicredi. Comfortable across JVM backends, Node/.NET services, and modern front-ends, he blends hands-on coding with mentoring and product-informed technical design. He favors data-driven, incremental delivery patterns that make experiments and legal requirements ship safely, and has repeatedly translated legacy platforms into scalable, testable architectures. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he pairs a security-focused postgraduate background with practical experience integrating transactional systems, ETL, and real-time processing.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Curso Superior de Tecnologia em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Tecnologia da Informação, Curso Superior de Tecnologia em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Tecnologia da Informação at Instituto Federal de Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul - campus Canoas
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Paulo Poffal - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Nubank