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Alan Ricardo Gomes

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Software engineer at Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado who designed an event-driven FinTech risk assessment service.

Brazil

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At Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado, I designed an event-driven Risk Assessment microservice for a pay-per-use FinTech billing platform serving 150+ active accounts. Built with AWS EventBridge and Lambda, it decoupled the service from legacy integrations.

I owned architectural decisions and code review as a Technical Leader, mentored junior and mid-level engineers, and helped resolve critical production incidents using New Relic. I also founded a company-wide Terraform study group.

At ThoughtWorks Brazil, I built an AWS Lambda integration for an unreliable third-party API and used a Datadog-monitored canary release to reach 100% of production traffic with zero migration-related errors. I also contributed to a React Native migration and worked on Java Spring Boot and React services.

My work spans backend and mobile development, production systems, and applied research. I'm currently a tutor at TripleTen and a graduate researcher at Federal University of São Carlos, where I work on semantic segmentation with Python and PyTorch and co-authored a paper published in IEEE JSTARS.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Bootcamp and MBA Tutor

Current

TripleTen

Jun 2026 - Present (5 months)

Provides structured, written technical feedback to learners through iterative code-review cycles, mentoring less experienced developers and disseminating engineering best practices. Collaborates with fellow mentors to calibrate grading rubrics and refine review standards.

Code Review Mentorship Technical Feedback Best Practices

Current

Graduate Researcher

Current

Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar)

Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Designs and trains CNN and Vision Transformer architectures in Python/PyTorch for pixel-wise semantic segmentation, analyzing accuracy, parameter count, and computational-efficiency trade-offs. Co-authored a paper published in IEEE JSTARS.

Python PyTorch CNN Vision Transformer Semantic Segmentation Research

Technical Leader (Tech Lead)

Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado

Sep 2022 - Mar 2025 (2 years 6 months)

Designed an event-driven Risk Assessment microservice (AWS EventBridge/Lambda) from the ground up within a pay-per-use FinTech billing platform, collaborating directly with the client's Product Owner and Solutions Architect. Served as the hands-on technical reference, owning code review and architectural decisions, and mentored junior and mid-level engineers.

AWS EventBridge Lambda Fintech Microservices SOLID Design Patterns Code Review Mentorship Terraform New Relic Incident Management

Data Science Extension Course Capstone

University of Campinas (UNICAMP)

Feb 2024 - Jun 2024 (4 months)

Applied object-detection and segmentation techniques (YOLOv2) to medical imaging in Python, as part of a complex-data-mining module that also covered PySpark for large-scale data processing.

Python YOLOv2 Object Detection Segmentation PySpark Data Mining

Senior Development Consultant

ThoughtWorks Brazil

Mar 2021 - Sep 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Architected a resilient integration with an unreliable third-party API by building an intermediary AWS Lambda with TDD and de-risking the rollout with a gradual, Datadog-monitored canary release. Worked within an NX monorepo architecture with CircleCI-driven CI/CD pipelines, contributing to a frontend migration from Ember to React Native and using AWS Step Functions to orchestrate services.

AWS Lambda Test Driven Development Datadog Canary Releases Nx (Monorepo)CircleCi CI CD React Native AWS Step Functions

Game Developer

Wildlife Studios

Sep 2020 - Mar 2021 (6 months)

Built level upgrades for the mobile game Zooba using Unity3D and Golang, with automated test-check hooks to keep high-quality code flowing safely into production.

Unity Go Mobile Development Testing Automation

Development Consultant

ThoughtWorks Brazil

May 2019 - Sep 2020 (1 year 4 months)

Built production services in Java Spring Boot and React/Redux as an agile development consultant, driving best practices across teams. Led the technical proof of concept for a gradual, page-by-page migration on a legacy e-commerce platform and scripted API integrations for localized digital storefronts.

Java Spring Boot React Redux Agile API Integration Ecommerce

Undergraduate Thesis (TCC)

University of Campinas (UNICAMP)

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019 (11 months)

Designed and implemented a visual cryptography system using OpenCV; the technical report was cited by another published paper.

OpenCV Visual Cryptography Research

Software Development Assistant

Daitan Group

Jul 2018 - May 2019 (10 months)

Built and maintained REST-API microservices in Ruby on Rails and Node.js for international production projects. Worked with AWS Lambda architecture alongside SQS, SNS, and CloudFormation to deliver scalable web services and developed unit tests for implemented features.

Ruby on Rails NodeJS REST APIs AWS Lambda Amazon SQS SNS CloudFormation Unit Testing

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar)

Master of Science, Computer Science

2025 -

Pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science with a focus on Visual Computing, including research on CNN and Vision Transformer architectures for semantic segmentation.