Summary
Vinícius Nicolau is a backend software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable APIs and microservices across fintech and tech companies, currently contributing to Mercado Pago at Mercado Livre. He specializes in Java, Kotlin, Go and Node.js, applying Clean Architecture, TDD, DDD and SOLID to deliver high-performance, observable systems using Datadog, Kibana and New Relic. He has hands-on experience with CI/CD, Canary and Blue-Green deployments, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS and streaming with Kafka, plus data work in BigQuery and GraphQL. Past roles at C6 Bank and PagSeguro sharpened his expertise in credit products, event-driven systems and secrets management (Vault) for production-grade services. He holds a postgraduate degree in Software Architecture from FIAP and combines strong engineering rigor with a pragmatic focus on business impact. Colleagues describe him as challenge-driven and constantly evolving technically to solve complex financial domain problems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
English, Portuguese