Italo Cavalcanti de Santana

Owned end-to-end development and operation of core Java/Kotlin Spring Boot services for a cross-border payments platform, improving performance and maintainability and mentoring engineers in cloud-native practices.

Led migration of legacy systems to microservices for Daft.ie, mentored engineers across four squads, and delivered feature and performance upgrades that increased NPS and reduced fraud substantially.

Contributed to B2C migration to microservices and B2B platform modernization while mentoring engineers and enforcing backend best practices.

Managed engineering teams for a large-scale trading platform (Clear), owning hiring, performance reviews, and KPI tracking while guiding architecture and delivery.

Led development of MeCompra SaaS for retail promotions, managing a cross-functional team and delivering .NET Core microservices and Flutter mobile apps with real-time geolocation.

Architected a Clinic SaaS using Spring Boot microservices and AWS, delivering secure patient data management and scalable healthcare workflows.

Designed and led development of a public-safety collaborative monitoring platform with Java REST APIs, Angular frontend, and cloud deployment.

Graduate studies in distributed software architecture focusing on cloud-native and distributed system design.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems with emphasis on software engineering and enterprise systems.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science covering programming, algorithms, and systems design.