# André de Figueiredo Castro Cunha

André de Figueiredo Castro Cunha is a remote worker on Himalayas, Product Manager and Software Engineer at Caatinga Observatory (OCA), Distributed Systems Laboratory,, based in Brazil.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@andrdefigueiredocast

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Product Manager and Software Engineer at Caat_ingá Observatory, building data platforms for Brazilian public agencies and speeding up municipal reporting.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Brazil |
| Authorized to work in | Brazil |
| Salary expectations | 20k+ BRL |
| Job categories | Product Engineer, Software Engineer |
| Skills | Product Management, Backend Development, Data Platform, Data Analysis, Performance Optimization, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Generative AI, LLM Evaluation, Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/andrefcc |
| GitHub | https://github.com/androthorn |

## About

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At Caat_ingá Observatory (OCA), I own product across four lines, including a regional data platform for SUDENE and an environmental atlas with FAO. For SUDENE’s automated municipal report, I set up an editorial review between engineering and the client’s data team; within four weeks, eight themes passed quality checks, up from two.

I sped up the report generator in Python and PostgreSQL, bringing repeat report returns from 8.4 seconds to 31 milliseconds. I profiled each stage with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and moved heavy queries to materialized views, while caching generated content and pre-rendering maps for all 2,074 municipalities.

Before OCA, I worked on distributed-systems tooling in Go and React and published research on evaluating LLM agents. I also shipped Mô, a household chores app, as a solo developer, and my research on workload migration in federated Kubernetes environments has been published and accepted for presentation.
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## Experience

### Product Manager and Software Engineer (current)

Caatinga Observatory (OCA), Distributed Systems Laboratory,. Aug 2026 - Present

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Owned product across four data platform lines for Brazilian public agencies, including a regional data platform for SUDENE, a social-policy system, a GIS platform for carbon-credit projects, and an environmental atlas with FAO. Set up and ran the editorial review between engineering and the client's data team, and sped up SUDENE's report generator from 8.4s to 31ms.
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Skills: Python, PostgreSQL, Product-Management, Data-Platform, GIS, Editorial-Review, Performance-Optimization, Materialized-Views, Caching, Pre-Rendering, Fault-Injection-Testing, Continuous-Deployment, Claude-Code, Agent-Driven-Development

### Software Developer Intern

CIT. Apr 2026 - Sep 2026

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Built Java/Spring Boot and Python/FastAPI backends in a Scrum team. Found the delivery pipeline's largest throughput bottleneck and presented it to the tech lead, who widened scope to build tooling on it.
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Skills: Java, Spring-Boot, Python, fastAPI, Scrum, Software-Delivery-Pipelines, Bottleneck-Analysis

### Fullstack Developer (Scholarship Researcher)

Distributed Systems Laboratory (LSD), UFCG. Jan 2025 - Apr 2026

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Wrote a broker that provisions KIND nodes on Kubernetes automatically, reducing setup time from 12 minutes to 4. Built a fullstack platform in Go and React with MongoDB for submitting workloads to a federated Kubernetes environment, including a human-in-the-loop layer for validating cross-cluster migrations.
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Skills: Go, React, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Kind, Fullstack-Development, Federated-Kubernetes, Human-In-The-Loop

## Education

### Universidade Federal de Campina Grande

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

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Pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, expected to graduate in December 2026.
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### Universidade Estadual da Paraíba

Bachelor of Law, Law

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Earned a Bachelor of Law degree.
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### Melbourne

Diploma, Leadership and Management

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Completed a Diploma of Leadership and Management.
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## Tech stack

- Kubernetes
- React Native
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Node.js
- Spring Boot
- React
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- Go
- FastAPI
- Linux
- Gemini
- TypeScript
- Git
- Docker
- SQL
- Claude Code
- AWS
- REST APIs

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