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Cambridge, Gb

Culver City, California, Us

Guildford, Surrey, Gb

- Information is reduced because of NDA.- Worked as a middle man between the Game Team and the Backend third party company, defining the best strategies to achieve the company goals.- When this strategy proved not good, created the complete BackEnd infrastructure and logic for the game Legacy, using C#, DynamoDB, Redis and Terraform.- Reduced the Cloud costs by more than 95%, delivering a better performance with much less resources than before.- Organized the deployment, changing from manual to automated approach, using IaC - Terraform. Reduced deployment time by 93%, with less chance of errors.- Restructured all the ticket management for the BE, giving more clarity to stakeholders.- Help Game Team, developing using C# and Unity.

Horsham, West Sussex, Gb

- Information is reduced because of NDA.- Working as a middle man between the Game Teams and the Backend Team.- Responsible for supporting both the teams, improving their coverage area, testing with real case scenarios the working systems.- Created a new SDK and a Dedicated Server system, currently used for our real case scenarios tests.

Torino, Italy, It

BE Engineering Lead | Video Experiences- Responsible for the Backend to the Telecine project, which is a Brazilian company focused on video on demand, and is the 3rd largest company in this segment in Brazil. The main target for my position was to improve maintainability and performance while delivering new functionalities.- Managed a team of other four engineers, writing back-end services in C# (.Net and .NetCore) and Node.js; - We were the first team to implement the usage of containerised microservices, extracting parts of the monolith project via its breakdown, improving the performance and scalability;- Participated in all the meetings in which the new business requirements were defined by the client, and worked with the Business Analyst to transform them into technical tasks, with acceptance criteria;- Configured the continuous integration using Bamboo, integrated with Octopus Deploys to delivery versions to the AWS;- As I speak the same language as the client, I became their primary contact point, which entitled me some extra responsibilities such as helping not only the client but other teams;- Worked directly with the Front-end team (Responsive Web, Android, iOS and TVs) providing the most effective ways to handle data from our BE;- Code Reviews is a standard practice within our team. Thus I am always trying to use the best practices and patterns while mentoring the developers;- Collaboration between projects is a common practice for me. We have some channels where all the projects share information, and I am an active participant;- Created dashboards in NewRelic and CloudWatch to monitor the health of the system, providing information in real-time;- Accomplishments: created and improved several internal libraries to avoid code duplication and started to use the best development practices. Good mentorship process, which brought more value to the project and team, as the developers improved themselves.

London, England, Gb

BE Engineering LeadMassive was acquired by Deltatre Group.- Responsible for the Backend to the Telecine project, which is a Brazilian company focused on video on demand, and is the 3rd largest company in this segment in Brazil. The main target for my position was to improve maintainability and performance while delivering new functionalities.- Managed a team of other four engineers, writing back-end services in C# (.Net and .NetCore) and Node.js; - We were the first team to implement the usage of containerised microservices, extracting parts of the monolith project via its breakdown, improving the performance and scalability;- Participated in all the meetings in which the new business requirements were defined by the client, and worked with the Business Analyst to transform them into technical tasks, with acceptance criteria;- Configured the continuous integration using Bamboo, integrated with Octopus Deploys to delivery versions to the AWS;- As I speak the same language as the client, I became their primary contact point, which entitled me some extra responsibilities such as helping not only the client but other teams;- Worked directly with the Front-end team (Responsive Web, Android, iOS and TVs) providing the most effective ways to handle data from our BE;- Code Reviews is a standard practice within our team. Thus I am always trying to use the best practices and patterns while mentoring the developers;- Collaboration between projects is a common practice for me. We have some channels where all the projects share information, and I am an active participant;- Created dashboards in NewRelic and CloudWatch to monitor the health of the system, providing information in real-time;- Accomplishments: created and improved several internal libraries to avoid code duplication and started to use the best development practices. Good mentorship process, which brought more value to the project and team, as the developers improved themselves.

Praha 9, Cz

- Hired to be a developer, but promoted to Lead Developer within the first month;- Managed a team of three other engineers, coding in C# (Windows Forms, WPF and Xamarim) and C++, acting as the Team Leader and using the Agile methodologies, like SCRUM;- Architected, designed, developed and improved company applications;- Improved the development process, focusing on best practices and patterns;- Managed the end-to-end project’s life, from the very high-level ideas and business requirements;- Developed plugins to integrate Jira, Confluence, and TeamCity;- Accomplishments: refactored the test library tool used by the company, improving the performance in over 300%, simplifying the configuration files, facilitating the creation of new actions required by the tests, and allowing better exception records when an error occurred.

My own company, doing some freelance.Softwares architecture improvements and development of new software;Improvement of the development process;Development support, focusing on best practices and patterns;Mercurial repositories management;Tests process improvements';Configuration of tools to continuous integration, like CCNet and Jenkins;Application development using Asp.Net and MVC (C# and Vb.Net);Application development using Oracle and SQL Server.

Brazil, Br

- Hired to be a developer, but promoted to Software Architect within three months;- Architected, designed, developed and improved company applications using Asp.Net and MVC Services, in both C# and VB.Net, SQL Server and Oracle databases;- Gathered business requirements, executed software analyses, and translate them into technical tasks;- Improved the software development process, using Agile methodologies, focused on increasing the delivery quality and team’s efficiency;- Worked as a mentor to the development team, teaching best practices and patterns;- Implemented continuous integration process, with a simple delivery process to send to the Operation Team the new version of the system;- Managed SVN, Mercurial, and Git repositories;- Accomplishments: created a library to execute SOAP requests using the WSDL references created by Visual Studio, as it has several technical debts on the generated code.

Brazil, Br

Rio De Janeiro, Br

- Architected, designed, developed and improved company applications, using Asp.Net and MVC Services, in both C# and VB.Net, SignalR, SQL Server and Oracle databases.- Executed software analyses, based on the requirements provided by the client.

Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Br

- Architected, designed, developed and improved applications for several clients, using Asp.Net, MVC Services, Windows Forms, WPF, in both C# and VB.Net; SQL Server and Oracle databases;- Worked with several clients, and was allocated at client’s facilities when necessary;- Accomplishments: Worked in several live events from TV Globo (e.g. national volleyball Superliga, Winter Olympics, and carnival), operating the developed systems, giving support when necessary, and executing business requirements changes on-site when required.

95877 Bezons, Fr

Temporary Project (PAN AMERICAN Games).Responsible for prepare and send the computers to the Games.