Looking to own business-critical backend systems at scale: distributed systems, high-throughput pipelines that both product and platform teams rely on. I want real ownership and low process, with strong collaboration. Keen to build in AI-native teams and grow deeper into it.
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Bruno Henriques
@bphenriques
Backend Tech Lead building data platforms at scale. Software + data engineering, AI-native.
PortugalWhat I'm looking for
Looking to own business-critical backend systems at scale: distributed systems, high-throughput pipelines that both product and platform teams rely on. I want real ownership and low process, with strong collaboration. Keen to build in AI-native teams and grow deeper into it.
Outside work, I build privacy-first, reproducible NixOS self-hosting infrastructure and contribute open-source tooling.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
KA
Current
Technical Lead, API Platform
Kaluza
Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)
Designed Enterprise API SLA maturity model and owns external API gateways including GraphQL and Event Streaming. Reduced Datadog logging costs by ~$240k/year and cut new-environment spin-up from ~2 weeks to 3 days.
KA
Backend Software Engineer, Data Platform
Kaluza
Jun 2021 - Sep 2024 (3 years 3 months)
Led design of a self-service access-request API and mentored engineers in functional Scala. Designed and launched a Kafka to BigQuery ingestion pipeline for Kaluza DataMart.
TA
Backend Software Engineer
Talkdesk
May 2019 - May 2021 (2 years)
Designed, built, and launched Outbound Dialer handling 60k phone calls per day. Doubled Dialer Engine's call throughput by optimizing I/O in the critical path.
FE
Backend Software Engineer, Insights
Feedzai
Jul 2017 - May 2019 (1 year 10 months)
Designed, built, and launched Feedzai's Insights, a multi-tenant Elastic Stack solution for reporting and near real-time dashboards. Designed data ingestion pipelines for real-time and historical data.
FC
iOS Development
FenixEdu, Carbon ByBold, Google Summer of Code
Jan 2014 - Dec 2017 (3 years 11 months)
Worked on iOS development projects as part of Google Summer of Code and other initiatives.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Técnico Lisboa
Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering
2011 - 2016
Grade: 17/20
BSc and MSc in Computer Science and Engineering with a focus on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, achieving a GPA of 17/20.
Availability
Looking for a job
Location
PortugalAuthorized to work in
Website
bphenriques.comPortfolio
bphenriques.comSalary expectations
100k-130k EUR
Skills
ScalaCatsFs2Http4sKotlinSpring BootJavaNixTypeScriptGraphQLAWSGoogle Cloud ServicesKubernetesDockerTerraformNixOSPrometheusGrafanaKafkaRabbitMQDatabricksBigQueryPostgreSQLDynamoDBRedisElasticsearchEvent ProcessingElasticStackAnsibleJenkinsVEGATableauOIDCTraefikWireGuardMicro VMsCloudflareGitHub ActionsiOSSSOGitHubTwilioTalkDeskBrunoTelnyx
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