Caio Brandão do Amaral

Caio Brandão do Amaral has extensive work experience in the software engineering field. Caio has held positions at various companies, including Bitso, Loft, e-Core, Atlassian, Wirecard AG, Walmart eCommerce - Brasil, Neolog Consultoria e Sistemas Ltda., and UOL.

At Bitso, Caio is currently working as a Principal Software Engineer, starting in 2022.

At Loft, they worked as a Principal Software Engineer from November 2021 to August 2022. In this role, they were part of the Portfolio Management tribe, focusing on increasing profit and turnover of assets in the marketplace. Caio utilized real estate data to build tools and models for listings management, price prediction, and risk assessment. Additionally, Caio provided technical guidance and made architecture decisions for the engineering teams.

During their tenure at e-Core from May 2021 to October 2021, Caio served as a Principal Software Engineer. Caio played a key role in the modernization and migration of systems from Oracle DB to the cloud as part of Priceline.com's partnership with Google Cloud.

At Atlassian, Caio worked as a Senior Software Engineer from October 2019 to January 2021. Caio was involved in redesigning the billing platform to enable seamless onboarding of new acquisitions, flexible pricing models, and self-serve customer experiences. The platform consisted of microservices with both synchronous and asynchronous communication.

As a Software Architect at Wirecard AG from January 2015 to September 2019, Caio led a team in transforming a monolithic Java software into smaller web services. Caio established automation structures and CI/CD practices using Jenkins, Gradle, Puppet, and Ansible. Caio also contributed to improving application quality, supporting operational aspects, and providing training to enhance team awareness and responsibility.

At Walmart eCommerce - Brasil, Caio worked as a Software Architect from July 2013 to December 2014. Caio participated in the rebuilding of the Walmart.com.br platform and successfully implemented a marketplace business model, achieving high sales during Black Friday 2013.

Prior to that, at Neolog Consultoria e Sistemas Ltda., Caio served as a Senior Development Lead from March 2012 to July 2013. Their work centered around transportation and logistics optimization through the application of integrated mathematical models. Caio also implemented training programs to enhance the development skills of their colleagues.

Caio started their career at UOL, where they held various positions from July 2006 to March 2012. Caio was a key member of the team responsible for developing core services for the popular Brazilian web portal. Caio worked on authentication, authorization, secure content storage services, and high-performance UDP applications and web services running on Linux machines. Caio progressed from a Software Engineering Internship to Junior Software Engineer and eventually an Experienced Software Engineer.

Overall, Caio has acquired a diverse range of skills and experiences in software engineering, architecture, system modernization, cloud migration, and team leadership throughout their career.

Caio Brandão do Amaral pursued their education from 2003 to 2007 at USP - Universidade de São Paulo, where they obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Software Engineering. Caio subsequently obtained additional certifications including "AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate" from Amazon Web Services in January 2019, and "Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (SCJP 6.0)" from Sun Educational Services in 2009.