Paulo Schneider
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Paulo has over 15 years of experience in a wide range of domains and technologies, from government websites to high-performance payment services. Having worked as an Agile consultant for several years, he is familiar with projects of any size and maintains a sharp focus on the product, its value, and users. He is comfortable working in several languages, such as Scala, Go, and Python, as well as adopting DevOps tooling and best practices.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), IntelliJ IDEA, Vim Text Editor
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was a data processing service for a publishing company, which processed millions of articles to extract analytics and recommendations.
Work Experience
Director
Southern Tech, Ltd.
- Provided contracting and consulting capabilities to companies.
Software Engineer (Contractor)
Worldpay
- Developed a new generation of payment services to replace a set of legacy systems.
- Bridged the gap between development and infrastructure, providing DevOps capabilities.
- Established Agile practices.
Lead Software Developer and Consultant
ThoughtWorks
- Worked as a consultant, tackling software delivery challenges in various domains, from government departments to the publishing industry.
- Rewrote a major scientific publishing platform from scratch, replacing a 20-year-old legacy system.
- Provided internal data science capabilities for a publishing company, combining several data sources into a coherent data pool.
- Built a centralized identity provider framework for government departments.
- Developed a fashion authoring system for a retail company.
- Created a set of analytics dashboards for government services.
- Developed an identity assurance system for the government.
Software Developer
TIM Group
- Created the company’s flagship product, a sell-side and buy-side communication platform for sharing stock picks.
- Developed a fund of hedge funds management software, tailored towards the company's biggest clients.
- Built analytics products, focusing on aggregating the stock pick data in order to provide stock trends and sentiment.
- Worked as product manager for the funds' application.
- Worked as the first DevOps engineer in the company, helping solve some of the infrastructure and testing challenges.
Software Engineer
T&T Engenheiros Associados
- Worked with several Hewlett-Packard's (HP) divisions: Printing, personal, and server computing in a wide range of products.
- Developed localization and internationalization management for Hewlett-Packard's installers and personal computers.
- Maintained a suite of management software for HP's blade servers.
- Developed a configuration management system for a new generation of HP's servers.
Research Assistant
PUCRS
- Prototyped embedded web services deployed in printers.
- Developed indoor location tracking for the University's museum.
- Built a co-simulation environment and visual editor.
- Supported professors in writing articles.
- Performed basic research on programming languages.
Experience
Gov.UK Performance Dashboards
https://www.gov.uk/performanceGov.UK Verify
https://www.signin.service.gov.uk/verify-servicesTrade Ideas Monitor (TIM)
https://www.timgroup.comSkills
Languages
Java, Python, Scala, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, C, C++, C#, Go, CSS, Clojure
Frameworks
Dropwizard, Flask, Play
Paradigms
Agile, Test-driven Development (TDD)
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, Vim Text Editor, IntelliJ IDEA, Git
Libraries/APIs
React
Storage
MySQL, MongoDB
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) - Porto Alegre, Brazil
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