Andre Pontes

An affiliate online marketing platform operating at a global scale. I developed and delivered the entire platform in less than six months while working on it as a solo freelancer. It was an amazing challenge that involved evaluating and understanding the requirements, designing a scalable and resilient architecture, and delivering a viable solution capable of handling billions of requests per month with sub-10-millisecond response times (99th percentile) and more than six 9s availability.

A Node.js-based distributed web crawler using Kafka as its primary data source. In reality, it is more like a full-fledged web scraping platform than a simple web crawler. I created it, end-to-end, from scratch, including design, development, testing, and ensuring its correct functioning.

Key Features:
• Supports scalability of up to thousands of nodes.
• Auto-manages proxy discovery, test, and rotation.
• Supports JavaScript client-side rendering.
• Highly available with no single points of failure.
• High throughput and low memory footprint, usually with network bandwidth as the only bottleneck.

A web platform to improve and scale livestock management. We'd like to call it brute-force genetic engineering. Based on data collected via RFID sensors, mechanical gates, industrial scales, and genealogical trees, we delivered an easy and scalable way to monitor, evaluate, and predict how productive and profitable each animal is or has the potential to be.

Combining all of this data, we built a platform that can help customers better manage livestock and increase profit margins and overall production by more than four times, year after year. As a full-stack developer and system administrator, I played a pivotal role in the development and ensuring the availability and accuracy of the systems.