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Gonçalo Almeida

@goncaloalmeida

Software Engineer with 5 years of experience & AWS Certified SAA, designing & operating scalable, event-driven platforms in high-traffic environments

Portugal

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What I'm looking for

I seek cloud-native engineering roles focused on resilient, scalable systems, automation, observability, and cost optimization within collaborative, data-driven teams.

I am a software engineer with five years of experience designing and operating scalable, event-driven platforms in high-traffic environments, focusing on resilience, performance, automation, and cost optimization. I hold the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate credential and have implemented multi-account AWS environments, serverless event-driven microservices, and resilient VPC architectures using Terraform and CloudFormation.

I've driven architecture and delivery at companies including Sky and Farfetch, improving deployment times (from one day to three seconds), optimizing Cassandra schemas and Kafka integrations, and building production-like environments to increase release confidence. I seek to continue pivoting into cloud-native engineering roles where I can apply observability, automation, and cost governance to large-scale distributed systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

AWS Cloud Engineer

Current

Contractor

Jan 2026 - Present (2 months)

Designed and implemented a multi-account AWS environment with Terraform, improved security via least-privilege IAM and cross-account roles, and deployed event-driven serverless microservices to reduce latency and centralize observability and cost governance.

AWS Terraform IAM Lambda API Gateway SQS DynamoDB Cloudwatch

Current

Software Engineer

Current

Sky

Jun 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)

Designed and evolved distributed search services for international streaming platforms, created production-like testing environments to improve release confidence, and migrated deployments to an event-driven Kafka mechanism reducing deployment time from 1 day to 3 seconds.

Kotlin Distributed Systems Kafka Microservices Observability Kubernetes Performance Optimization Release Engineering Production Support

Software Engineer

Farfetch

May 2023 - Jun 2024 (1 year 1 month)

.NET developer for experimentation services (feature toggles, A/B testing), executed Cassandra schema optimizations to increase query speed and implemented Kafka Avro contracts to improve interoperability and data throughput.

C#.NET Cassandra Kafka Avro Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana ArgoCD

Software Developer

NTT Data Portugal

Sep 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 6 months)

Developed and modernized backend systems for the Portuguese Tax Authority ensuring security and compliance, using Java and Oracle, and performed data analysis with Microsoft SQL Server, C# and Power BI.

OracleXE Java Oracle XE Microsoft SQL Server C#Backend Development Security Compliance Data Analysis Power BI

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Bachelor of Computer Science and Business Management, Computer Science and Business Management

2017 - 2021

Activities and societies: Developed a startup prototype (Arduino and Android Studio) and worked on product architecture, pitching, and a patent; coursework and projects in software engineering and databases.

Completed a Bachelor program combining computer science and business management with coursework in software development, databases, and systems design.