
João Vitor Verona Biazibetti
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Curitiba - State of Paraná
Toptal member since March 8, 2026
João is a software engineer with 7+ years of experience building end-to-end projects across fintech, logistics, and government, scaling systems to five million monthly users. He has expertise in cloud and back-end systems, as well as front-end and mobile development, and has contributed to open-source projects like Google's Gson and Vercel's SWR. Driven by a passion for impactful products, he built Skiley, a hobby project that reached over 400,000 users, and is an Oracle Certified Professional.
Portfolio
Experience
- Java - 8 years
- Kotlin - 8 years
- Spring Boot - 8 years
- PostgreSQL - 8 years
- Java 11 - 8 years
- IntelliJ IDEA - 8 years
- Docker - 8 years
- Amazon EC2 - 8 years
Preferred Environment
Slack, Linux, Windows, IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL
The most amazing...
...solution I've developed is Skiley (skiley.net), with 400,000 registered users, built entirely by me across back end, front end, infrastructure, and mobile apps.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Wildlife Studios
- Owned the development of a new core monetization feature, which directly contributed to a 16% gross revenue increase of the project.
- Deployed new features weekly, maintaining the game API and infrastructure, retrocompatibility, and integrating with multiple external services such as matchmaking, game instance management, data ingestion pipelines, etc.
- Managed on-call rotations, monitoring and alerting systems, incident responses, post-mortems, and production issue debugging.
- Contributed to a modern API service built with Go, using an in-house RPC framework similar to gRPC for communication between microservices.
Staff Software Engineer
PicPay
- Achieved government certification for open finance readiness on day one, making PicPay the second finance service out of more than 300 to earn this distinction and securing a significant market lead.
- Designed an event-driven architecture (CQRS-ES) and implemented multiple open finance APIs and business logic that had to adhere to extensive rules from the government.
- Participated in staff projects and discussions about the business unit's tech efforts and decisions. Led the communication and integration between services maintained by distinct teams.
- Mentored and directed three mid-level engineers through onboarding, code reviews, feature design, and task delegation.
Senior Software Engineer
Iteris CGA
- Guided the implementation of new finance report generations and data ingestion pipelines from monolithic services.
- Implemented the back end of critical features, such as government tax calculators and business analytics of consumers.
- Served as the squad's tech lead in the latter half of the period, mentoring and guiding three mobile engineers.
Software Engineer
Viptech
- Built a back-end architecture using Kotlin and a Java virtual machine (JVM) with a type-safe ORM, migrating from an old Java Servlet service, achieving around 20% infrastructure cost savings, and increasing test coverage to around 90% from 60%.
- Created an npm package to integrate with Google Maps using React.
- Collaborated with a small team to rework a vehicle tracking system, migrating from JavaServer Faces (JSF) to React with RESTful APIs.
Experience
Skiley
http://skiley.netEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Federal University of Technology of Paraná (UTFPR) - Campo Mourão, Paraná, Brazil
Certifications
Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 11 Developer
Oracle
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js
Tools
Slack, IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, Terraform, Mocha, Cucumber
Languages
Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java SE (Core Java), Java 11, C, C++, Go, C#
Frameworks
Spring Boot, Unity, JUnit
Platforms
Docker, Amazon EC2, Linux, Windows, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, AWS IoT, Apache Kafka, Firebase, JBoss
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Amazon DynamoDB
Other
Testcontainers
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