Summary
Samuel Simão is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing large-scale banking platforms, currently leading architecture and team topology for Agricultural Credit at Sicredi in New York. He blends backend expertise in Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, WebFlux, and event-driven architectures with front-end fluency in React/Angular and design-system standardization, driving API-first microservices that support high-volume financial transactions. Samuel has led core banking transformations that scaled portfolios from R$75B to R$200B+ and helped process individual transactions up to R$800M, while introducing observability and CI/CD practices to improve reliability and delivery speed. He is a hands-on technical mentor and hiring optimizer—reducing low-fit hires by 80%—and advocates XP practices like TDD, pair/mob programming, and continuous refactoring. Pragmatic and business-focused, he has also delivered inclusive solutions (e.g., paperless credit flows for illiterate customers) showing a commitment to accessibility and financial inclusion.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Analysis and Development, Information Technology, Computer Systems Analysis and Development, Information Technology at FADERGS
English, Portuguese