Tomás Soares
Senior Backend Developer at Wellhub
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolTomás Soares is a Senior Backend Developer with over a decade of programming experience and seven years focused on professional backend engineering, currently building scalable microservices in Kotlin and Go from Braga, Portugal. He has a strong Java foundation (Java 8/11) and a track record modernizing systems—replacing a 1M-requests/day cache provider, implementing feature toggles, and orchestrating 100–200k-message migrations across services. Tomás blends hands-on API and Kafka worker development with operational practices like monitoring, fitness functions, and atomic commits to reduce manual work and measure impact. His career spans telecom, defense, healthcare, and platform integrations, giving him depth in distributed systems, ETL, and messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Camel). Always learning new technologies, he brings pragmatic engineering that balances reliability, observability, and incremental improvement.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade do Sul de Santa CatarinaTécnico, Java, Técnico, Java at Senac Santa Catarina
French, English
Stackoverflow
11reputation
228reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (7)
timeout6
jpa6
hibernate6
socket6
sql6
spring6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Tomasoares/spring-graphql
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Model app to learn Graphql with Spring through the following Udemy Course: https://www.udemy.com/course/master-graphql-with-spring-boot-java-and-testing/
Contributions:28 PRs, 51 pushes, 14 branches in 1 month
spring-bootfollowingtestingmasterjava-spring-boot
Tomasoares/fibonacci-k8s-gc
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
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