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Orlando, Florida, United States

Tampa, Us

• Led the development and analysis efforts, aligning business and technical requirements to drive the creation and rollout of a healthcare payments solution using Spring and Angular.• Architected a cutting-edge platform infrastructure utilized by over 80,000 users, comprising more than 20 containerized microservices on AWS, ensuring rapid, dependable, and highly accessible containers.• Pioneered process enhancements by streamlining and automating continuous integration (CI) workflows via Gitlab, streamlining testing, building, deployment, and software release cycles.• Enhanced code sustainability by establishing coding standards and best practices, resulting in an 80% decrease in troubleshooting timeframes through the implementation of robust log and event tracking mechanisms, and a 60% uptick in software quality.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

• Led a team of nine developers in the creation of a back-office API, adhering to industry best practices and establishing new development standards to enhance project quality and success.• Conducted user interviews to gather business requirements and define architectural solutions, utilizing strong communication skills and software development best practices.• Increased development productivity by 60% through the implementation of a new API built with the Spring framework and a redesigned front end using Angular 2 and HTML5 to enhance user experience.• Implemented testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, and JMeter, along with Jenkins for automated build-deployment processes, ensuring project deliverables' integrity and quality.

New York, New York, Us

• Directed system analysis and reverse engineering in a web application to optimize budget management of 70+ branches and departments for the largest financial services company in the world with 300,000 employees.• Key role in gathering an in-depth understanding of, developing, and publishing a never-released to production and undocumented legacy system by interviewing users and reviewing source code.• Pioneered the development of new functionalities and upgraded technologies for a 2009 web application while creating a high-performance batch application for database migration to drive technical excellence.

• Established all operations of the start-up, with a focus on constructing and launching a travel application capable of searching and assembling trips with flights, hotels, and attractions based on the budget and profile of a user.• Optimized software performance and functionality by enhancing mobile development for a native iOS app using Swift.• Key role in selecting and building an innovative highly-scalable business model using the Canvas methodology and Lean principles to ensure organization success.• Headed project management and execution, leading web development with RESTful AP using Struts (MVC), Shiro (Security), and Hibernate (ORM).

Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Br

• Steered software engineering and led a team of 8 to successfully develop, test, and release a new system to maintain other applications in the credit platform for the $1.5B financial institution.• Guided system maintenance and performance improvement for legacy systems of the credit ecosystem, driving technology innovation by integrating Sonar, JUnit, Mockito, EclEmma, and JMeter to boost code quality.• Championed cross-functional collaboration by communicating with and interviewing 30+ users and stakeholders across different functions on the necessity and challenges involved with the credit platform integration.• Partnered with the development team to create the Limit Manager application using Spring Framework to audit third-party code and maintain configuration management.• Instrumental in training and educating 6 software developers on new technology and applications to boost adoption.

• Supported technical operations and management by leading system analysis, software development, testing, and implementation for the Ozonion platform with 4 modules.• Served as Scrum Master and Product Owner, responsible for performing daily standups and removing impediments while planning and advising on implementations within the organization.• Defined the technology strategy for new software, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain complex technical projects that anticipate the needs of the business for years to come.

New York, New York, Us

• Pioneered the software development lifecycle (SDLC), overseeing teams of 8 in Brazil, New York, and India for the Global Foreign Exchange, a worldwide platform with high availability to respond to more than 1,000 requests per minute. • Leveraged major Java EE technologies deployed on a clustered Unix environment and steered front-end development for web and desktops.• Pioneered the creation of complex queries and stored procedures with high performance while leveraging strong problem-solving skills to resolve a wide range of technical issues.

Brasília, Df, Br

Developed the frontend for Web (Struts 1.x) and desktops (Java Swing). Applied JEE technology such as EJB 2.1, JMS, JBDC, JavaMail. Created queries and stored procedures of high performance and of great complexity. Responsible for creating reusable web and business components.

Br

* Excelled in the successful implementation of some embryonic Java technologies such as JSP, EJB, JavaMail and JNDI in several small business intranet and internet, resulting in satisfaction among customers.* Applied web design activities to the daily job as required to produce institutional web sites and portal for customer. Such knowledge in HTML, Javascript and CSS are still useful today for Web 2.0.

* Used Visual Basic to develop the system modules in client-server architecture accessing the Microsoft SQL Server database. Worked strongly with SQL to produce high complex queries.