Summary
Victor Minerva is a tech lead with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable backend systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Descartes Systems Group in Greater Dublin. He specializes in event-driven architectures, Kafka, Java (up to Java 21) and Spring Cloud, and has a strong track record building resilient microservices and REST APIs for logistics and enterprise platforms. Victor blends technical ownership with product-minded decision making—refining user stories, removing blockers, and mentoring teams to consistently ship high-quality software. His background includes operating cloud-native systems on AWS, managing data across Oracle, MongoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch, and implementing CI/CD pipelines for reliable delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances business priorities with long-term scalability. Off-hours he jokes he’s “an organism that turns caffeine and pizza into software,” a hint at a focused, hands-on engineering style.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
English, Portuguese