Sonia Melgaço
Senior Software Engineer at Gupy
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolSonia Melgaço is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend systems across fintech, gaming, and insurance domains from São Paulo. She has led technical teams and driven architecture decisions for microservices, messaging systems (Kafka, SQS), and data pipelines using tools like Kubernetes, Spark/Databricks, and Airflow, consistently focusing on performance, consistency and operational robustness. Sonia’s hands-on work ranges from designing distributed configuration management and ETL pipelines to migrating legacy systems and optimizing AWS-based deployments, often translating technical findings into executive-facing roadmaps. She mentors and elevates junior engineers, authors engineering guidelines, and has repeatedly delivered measurable scalability improvements by turning abandoned proposals into prioritized plans. A background in electrical and electronics engineering underpins her systems-thinking approach, and she blends deep backend pragmatism with experience in both real-time social features and large-scale analytics.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (28)
pusher9
leaderboard8
golang7
kafka7
plugin7
notification7
backend7
raspberry-pi6
unleash6
android6
ranking6
statsd6
iot5
kafka-connector5
redis5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bitbanshee/fungo
Dec 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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