J. Castanho Correia

Experiences

5. SSr. Software Engineer at Mercado Libre

Full-time · Montevideo, Uruguay · Remote Mar 2023 – Present · 10 mos

4. Sr. Software Engineer at ioasys

Full-time · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil · Remote Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos
  • Participated in sourcing, interviewing, hiring candidates
  • Performed knowledge transfers on Java 11-19, Golang, Querydsl, BDD and artificial intelligence
  • Allocated in CVC Corp's Communications project:
    • Assumed a technical lead position and was responsible for providing technical leadership, defining the project's architecture, and managing the delivery of an engine that met the company's communication needs
    • Designed and implemented a fully event-driven infrastructure from scratch
    • Refactored a templating tool, significantly reducing template registration time
    • Managed code reviews and approvals, as well as weekly deployments of applications
    • Collaborated with product managers to define project directions and worked with support to investigate client issues
    • Did code health improvements (eliminating tech debt, improving development workflow) and participated in interviewing potential candidates and helped with onboarding of new team members
    • Assisted others with complicated tasks through pair programming and documented project structure, project-specific code conventions, technical decisions, and troubleshooting
  • Allocated in CVC Corp's Extranet project:
    • Helped refactor part of a thirty-year-old legacy monolith into a modern microservices architecture and designed architectural proposals and project improvements
    • Helped with integrations with the Opportunities (Pricing) team

3. Systems Developer Analyst at Kontulari

Full-time · Salvador, Bahia, Brazil · Hybrid Oct 2021 – Jan 2022 · 4 mos
  • Participated and emerged victorious in the company's inaugural hackathon
  • Worked on refactoring legacy codebase
  • Implemented integrations with external accounting providers
  • Gave a presentation exposing several security flaws in the application
  • Worked on security-related features

2. Software Developer at Chaosium

Freelance · Hayward, California, United States · Remote Jul 2022 – Oct 2022 · 4 mos
  • Had daily meetings with product managers to define software requirements
  • Successfully extracted complex rules from RPG books into an automated web system
  • Built and developed setup simplifications and improvements
  • Did code reviews and approved merge requests
  • Designed and implemented an automated versioning project

1. Software Developer at Fiverr

Freelance · Tel Aviv, Israel · Remote Mar 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos
  • Participated in the full software development lifecycle on multiple projects
  • Worked on database optimization, significantly improving query performance against relational databases
  • Contributed to the implementation of deployment automations
  • Developed integrations with external APIs, expanding the functionality of applications
  • Investigated and resolved customer issues

0. Intern at PGFN

Internship · Salvador, Bahia, Brazil · On-site Aug 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos
  • Had contact with tax collection, debt management and judicial litigation systems
  • Helped improve communication and collaboration between legal teams and other departments and implemented automation solutions to reduce manual errors and improve efficiency in various processes
  • Conducted regular audits and performance evaluations to ensure automation solutions continue to meet business needs