Zaqueu Cavalcante
Senior Software Engineer at Exato Digital
Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolZaqueu Cavalcante is a Senior Software Engineer from Pernambuco, Brazil, with six years of hands-on experience building reliable .NET backends and full-stack features using C#, ASP.NET, Blazor, PostgreSQL and related tooling. He has led authentication/authorization refactors, designed segregated microservices with Redis and RabbitMQ, and delivered production-grade APIs and contact center systems for nonprofit fundraising platforms. A pragmatic collaborator who values code quality, he began as a student developer and progressed to senior roles by owning end-to-end projects including modeling, security, deploys and automated tests. Zaqueu is also an active open-source maintainer—his educational management system on GitHub has 100+ stars and he contributed significant refactors and unit tests to the well-known tabula-java PDF table extraction project. Comfortable working across frontend and backend boundaries, he brings a pragmatic balance of system design, maintainability and cross-team collaboration. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into clean, testable implementations that scale.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ensino Médio Completo Engenharia Mecânica, Ensino Médio Completo Engenharia Mecânica at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sertão PernambucanoComputer Systems Analysis, Computer Systems Analysis at Faculdade Nova Roma
Github Skills (9)
javas10
pdf-processing10
refactoring10
java10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
unit-testing9
algorithms9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tabulapdf/tabula-java
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Extract tables from PDF files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 14 commits, 4 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Zaqueu primarily refactored and improved the code related to extracting data from PDF pages, focusing on classes like `ObjectExtractor`, `PageIterator`, and `Page`. They encapsulated point attributes and implemented a clipping algorithm. The user also added unit tests to ensure the correctness of the code and refactored methods within the `ObjectExtractorStreamEngine` and JSON serializers to enhance maintainability.
extraction-enginepdfextract-tablesjarpdfs
ZaqueuCavalcante/SnAIke
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Artificial Inteligence plays Snake game.
Contributions:157 commits, 2 PRs, 76 pushes in 5 months
gamesnakeartificialsnake-gameinteligence
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