Summary
Pedro Pires is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed APIs, cloud-deployed systems, and high-availability infrastructure from Porto, Portugal. He has led teams and shipped production services across fintech and mobility domains, including Banking-as-a-Service APIs with NestJS/Kafka and a payroll-loans mobile platform. Early career work spans Ruby on Rails, large-scale Elasticsearch and Redis operations, and bespoke data crawlers, showing breadth from backend services to infrastructure monitoring. Pedro favors clean, maintainable designs and demonstrates hands-on operational experience configuring CI, observability and fault-tolerant deployments. He combines entrepreneurial initiative—building flight-data parsers and APIs—with formal computer science training from UFMG. A curious technologist, he continually adopts new tools and patterns to solve real-world distributed system problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Colégio Loyola
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English