Paulo Schneider, Developer in London, United Kingdom
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Paulo Schneider

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Software Developer

London, United Kingdom

Toptal member since September 4, 2019

Expertise
JavaAgile DevelopmentAWSPythonSQLRubyTerraformAnsibleFlaskScalaCSSClojureGolang
Bio

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

Southern Tech, Ltd.
Go, Java
Worldpay
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Terraform, Python, Scala
ThoughtWorks
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Terraform, JavaScript, Scala, Ruby, Python...

Experience

  • Java - 18 years
  • Agile - 11 years
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
  • Python - 5 years
  • JavaScript - 5 years
  • Scala - 3 years
  • Go - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

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

2018 - PRESENT
Southern Tech, Ltd.
  • Provided contracting and consulting capabilities to companies.
Technologies: Go, Java

Software Engineer (Contractor)

2018 - 2019
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Terraform, Python, Scala

Lead Software Developer and Consultant

2013 - 2018
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Terraform, JavaScript, Scala, Ruby, Python, Go, Java

Software Developer

2007 - 2013
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.
Technologies: MongoDB, MySQL, Clojure, Scala, Java

Software Engineer

2004 - 2007
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.
Technologies: C, C#, Java

Research Assistant

2000 - 2004
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.
Technologies: Java, C++, C

ogs-notifier

https://github.com/phss/ogs-notifier
A tool for interacting with OGS using Go.

Gov.UK Performance Dashboards

https://www.gov.uk/performance
A dashboard system for displaying the performance of several government services.

Gov.UK Verify

An identity assurance system intended to provide a single trusted login across all UK government digital services.

Trade Ideas Monitor (TIM)

https://www.timgroup.com
Service for distributing trade ideas and other investment recommendations.
1997 - 2001

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) - Porto Alegre, Brazil

Libraries/APIs

React

Tools

Terraform, Ansible, Vim Text Editor, IntelliJ IDEA, Git

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)

Storage

MySQL, MongoDB

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