Summary
Vinicius Castro is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building reliable, event-driven microservices and high-throughput APIs using Java and Kotlin, now working at Mercado Livre Brasil. He has a strong track record in ETL and financial reconciliation pipelines at scale, having cut a compliance file generation job from 12 hours to 1 hour and driven a 130% increase in product creation using AI-assisted ToS checks. Comfortable across the stack—Node.js, Angular, Ionic, databases from DynamoDB to Postgres and MongoDB—he brings DevOps-minded engineering with AWS certifications, Kubernetes/Helm experience, and production observability via Kibana and New Relic. Known for rapid adaptation and proactive problem-solving, he emphasizes idempotency, retry/DLQ patterns and cost-efficient architectures. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he blends full-stack roots with a specialty in data pipelines and resilient distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Sistemas de Informação, Bacharelado Sistemas de Informação at Centro Universitário UNA
Técnico em Informática Tecnologia da Informação, Técnico em Informática Tecnologia da Informação at Escola Politécnica de Minas Gerais Polimig
Portuguese, English