Who · Path
About
A bit about me, my routine and the path that led me here.
Software engineer with over a decade of experience. I started in tech support in 2013, in Salvador, and gradually moved into development — systems analysis first, then full-stack, until getting where I am today. I currently work at Pismo, a payment infrastructure fintech acquired by Visa.
Day to day involves reactive systems with Java and Groovy, messaging with Kafka, Kubernetes orchestration, and a lot of AWS — SQS, SNS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3. I also work with data pipelines using Apache Spark and Databricks. Over time, observability and architecture became non-negotiable for me: I can’t think about a system without thinking about how it’ll fail and how it’ll recover.
Having gone through support before development shaped how I see the work. Understanding how a system actually fails in production changes how you design it — and that stayed with me.
Graduated in Software Engineering from Estácio and in Systems Analysis and Development from Fundação Visconde de Cairu.
Outside of work, I play games, read comics, and code for fun — personal projects, experiments, things that pop into my head and are more enjoyable to build than to leave as an idea. Lately I’ve been exploring LLMs quite a bit: models running locally and the Claude and GPT APIs. It’s an area that still feels like we’re figuring things out in real time.