Summary
Pedro Pongelupe is a Software Development Engineer with nine years of experience building microservices and distributed systems, currently at Amazon after recent senior engineering stints with Avenue Code supporting clients like eBay, Gerdau and GAP. He brings deep Java expertise (Spring Boot, Java 8/11, testing with jUnit/Mockito) and hands-on AWS/Kubernetes experience across S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS and containerized deployments. Pedro has balanced industry work with academia as an assistant professor and holds a master’s in computer science from PUC Minas, reflecting a strong foundation in both theory and practice. He’s comfortable moving between legacy enterprise stacks and cloud-native architectures, having worked on logistics and real-estate platforms as well as automotive services. Outside of work he’s an active maker on GitHub (Pongelupe), a coffee aficionado with a taste for old-fashioned style, and publicly voices a commitment to technology that serves society without exploitation. Colleagues would describe him as curious, pragmatic, and consistently shipping reliable systems under production constraints.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at PUC Minas