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Pimenta Alexandre

@pimentaalexandre

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I’m a Senior Java Engineer with nine years of building large scale, cloud native systems in fintech and healthcare.

Portugal

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior backend/cloud roles where I can design scalable, secure systems, mentor teams, and deliver measurable business impact using Java, microservices, and cloud-native practices.

I’m a Senior Java Engineer with nine years of building large scale

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Java Engineer

Revolut

Jan 2022 - Jan 2025 (3 years)

Engineered fraud detection and global payments services for Revolut’s super-app, achieving 99.99% uptime and scaling event-driven systems to 2M+ transactions per day while improving fraud detection coverage by 11%.

Java Spring Boot Cloud Build GKE Kafka GraphQL Kubernetes ArgoCD Prometheus PyTorch

Senior Java Engineer

Philips

Jan 2020 - Jan 2022 (2 years)

Led backend development of the Philips HealthSuite Cloud Platform, building real-time ICU monitoring pipelines with Kafka and Spark (<2s latency) and integrating TensorFlow models to improve predictive scoring by 12%.

Java Spring Boot Kafka Spark TensorFlow FHIR PostgreSQL Kubernetes

Back End Developer

Finastra

Jan 2016 - Jan 2020 (4 years)

Delivered cloud-native payments and risk management platform processing 500K+ daily transactions with <200ms latency, implemented event-driven architectures and AI anomaly detection reducing fraud losses by 18%.

Java Spring Boot AWS EC2 RDS Lambda Kafka RabbitMQ Elasticsearch Docker Kubernetes Jenkins

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Lisbon

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science completed in 2016, providing foundational knowledge in software engineering, algorithms, and systems relevant to backend and cloud-native development.