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Daniel Fidalgo

@danielfidalgo

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I build scalable cloud platforms, distributed systems, and AI media infrastructure.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build scalable cloud and distributed systems, lead technical architecture, and solve complex platform, media, AI, or logistics problems with strong engineering teams.

At Montra, I built the cloud infrastructure, media pipeline, and backend architecture for an AI-powered video creation and video-ads platform from the ground up. I authored infrastructure, billing, transcoding, and AI services across roughly 55 backend repositories.

I built a GCP platform with Terraform, GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, CDN, release rollbacks, and deploy queues. I also designed a Rust and GStreamer transcoding platform with GPU acceleration, HLS output, resumable uploads, crash recovery, and scale-to-zero autoscaling.

Previously at SkipTheDishes, I led dispatch logistics work that reduced average placed-to-delivered time from 45 to 29 minutes and supported up to 430k deliveries on peak Fridays. I helped scale systems processing up to 22k courier analyses per minute while mentoring engineers and growing a delivery-focused team.

I've delivered more than 40 projects across government, financial, tourism, corporate, advertising, logistics, and retail organizations. I enjoy breaking monoliths into microservices, improving performance, and building reliable systems with Java, Rust, Kotlin, TypeScript, cloud infrastructure, and agile practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer

Montra

Dec 2023 - Jul 2026 (2 years 7 months)

Backend and platform engineer for an AI-powered video creation and video-ads platform. Owned cloud infrastructure, media pipeline, and backend architecture end to end, building the company's cloud platform from scratch on GCP using Terraform.

Rust GStreamer HLS Kubernetes GCP Terraform Docker PostgreSQL Stripe SpiceDB Event Driven Architecture Microservices Distributed Systems CI CD

Senior Software Developer

EQ3

Jun 2023 - Nov 2023 (5 months)

Software developer for retail e-commerce to support and showcase product inventory. Applied clean code practices and conducted code reviews to promote reliability.

Java Spring Boot Flyway JOOQ

Principal Software Developer

Axlehire

Feb 2022 - May 2023 (1 year 3 months)

Part of the technical counsel, proposed technical guidance on software architecture and development practices. Sought projects in the routing domain to complement current solutions.

Kotlin Java SOLID Domain Driven Design Jenkins GCP Serverless

Senior Team Leader

SkipTheDishes

Jul 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 6 months)

Led the dispatch logistics team delivering incremental features to the system while applying microservices architecture, increasing system reliability and performance. Reduced 'Placed to Delivered' time from average 45 min to 29 min.

Java Microservices Architecture Technical Interviews

Senior Java Developer

SkipTheDishes

Jun 2018 - Jun 2019 (1 year)

Senior Java developer for the dispatch logistics team working on a cloud-based distributed backend system that supported and automated the logistics process. Developed a scoring library for delivery cost calculations across 500 markets.

Java SOLID ORM Metrics

Senior Software Engineer

Monumenta Comunicação

May 2017 - Apr 2018 (11 months)

Full stack software engineer developing both mobile and web systems in a fast-paced environment with agile methodologies. Delivered projects for clients in banking and retail sectors.

.NET Angular Ionic Java

IT Specialist

IBM

Jan 2014 - Feb 2017 (3 years 1 month)

Accelerated Value Program IT Specialist performing as a trusted advisor on customer site to leverage the usage and development on WebSphere Portal platform. Delivered large-scale projects handling 3 million users at peak hour.

Websphere WCM IHS Performance Testing

Software Engineer

Monumenta Comunicação

Nov 2010 - Jan 2014 (3 years 2 months)

Software engineer in the advertising industry working in a fast-paced environment with agile methodologies. Developed web sites, web campaigns, systems, and maintained legacy projects.

.NET ASP.NET MVC Entity Framework Azure Kinect WPF SQL Server

Software Developer

Poliedro Informatica

Oct 2009 - Nov 2010 (1 year 1 month)

Software development, version control, integration and unit tests, systems documentation, software development pattern definition, system analysis and modelling.

Java JSF EXT JS Hibernate PostgreSQL Oracle