Thiago Sawada
Back-End Developer at Compass.uol
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolThiago Sawada is a back-end developer with eight years of experience building and migrating production web systems, currently focused on AWS-based microservices and API automation. He combines deep Ruby on Rails expertise with Python scripting and experience across databases like MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Redis, having automated API Gateway configurations and managed usage plans during cloud migrations. Thiago’s background in journalism and storytelling informs a unique approach to product UX and content-driven projects—evident in a solo React/Next.js narrative site that blended interactive design, outreach and analytics during Brazil’s 2022 election cycle. He’s delivered civic and enterprise platforms for clients like UNESCO and Compass.uol, emphasizing testing, observability and deployable containerized workflows. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he’s expanding into AI/ML through postgraduate specialization while retaining a practical, cross-disciplinary mindset that bridges code, content and user engagement.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Journalism Communication, Bachelor's degree in Journalism Communication at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita FilhoSpecialization Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Specialization Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at PUC MinasExtension Journalism, Extension Journalism at University of NavarraFull-Stack Developer Web Development, Full-Stack Developer Web Development at Le WagonExchange Information and Communication, Exchange Information and Communication at Avignon Université
Portuguese, English, FrenchProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
participemais/consul-sp
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:7 reviews, 117 PRs, 341 pushes in 6 months
thiagosawada/allora-chat
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:102 commits, 64 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 month
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