Challenges and to have a good work life balance
Rafael Pasquotto de Lima Costa
@rafael
With 17+ years in backend development. Java, Spring boot, microservices are my bread and butter.
United KingdomWhat I'm looking for
With over 17 years in backend development, I've honed my skills primarily in Java. My journey has been one of self-driven passion and curiosity, leading me to master technologies like Spring Boot, microservices architecture, event streams with Kafka, and Docker.
My roles at organisations like Rightmove and Landbay have equipped me with the expertise to navigate intricate technical environments, make pivotal architectural decisions, and guide teams towards their goals. Always eager to learn, I continually embrace new technologies, ensuring I stay updated with the latest industry trends.
Experience
SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
RIGHTMOVE
Apr 2018 - Present (6 years 1 month)
Led tech integration, improving deployment to docker/cloud. Developed libraries boosting adoption and speed to market. Excelled in microservices, Java, Spring Boot, Docker. Created Kafka/Couchbase Mail service handling 3M+ messages daily, ensuring scalability. Designed a transactional outbox library, facilitating reliable Kafka event publishing.
SENIOR JAVA DEVELOPER
Landbay
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 9 months)
At Landbay, a fintech P2P company, I engaged with the full SDLC from git through Jenkins pipeline and terraform to docker and AWS EC2. Focused on Java, utilizing JPA/Hibernate, Spring Boot, Spring Security, MVC, and REST with Swagger for extensive unit testing via TDD and Cucumber for integration tests. Designed and developed microservices with Spring Boot, JPA, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch.
SENIOR JAVA DEVELOPER
JAVELIN GROUP
May 2015 - Jul 2016 (1 year 2 months)
Worked mainly in e-commerce and OMS systems on Home delivery to a big supermarket chain in the Netherlands using Java, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Web Services (SOAP), Mule ESB, TDD, and Mocks. Also responsible for the technical design of solutions for OMS System.
JAVA DEVELOPER
ENCORE TICKETS
Oct 2014 - May 2015 (7 months)
London based company specialist in theatre tickets and related products. Part of the re-architecture project team, responsible to deliver new services using the best practices in the industry.
JAVA SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Summa Technologies
May 2013 - Jul 2014 (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for gathering and reviewing requirements from business analysts, business owners and product managers. Skilled at communicating at both the business and technical level, and designing database schema and API/web service interfaces. Designed and implemented integration flows using Mule ESB, JMS, web services, and transformers.
JAVA DEVELOPER
WESTERN ASSET MANAGEMENT
May 2011 - Apr 2013 (1 year 11 months)
Worked as part of an offshore team in the development and support of an enterprise trading system for trading various securities including Fixed Income, Futures/Options and others. The system is used by 7 offices around the world.
Tech stack
Learn about the tools and technologies that Rafael likes to use.
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon S3
Google Cloud Storage
GitLab
Jenkins
GitLab CI
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Cassandra
Oracle
CockroachDB
Spring Boot
Spring Framework
Spring MVC
Terraform
IntelliJ IDEA
Jira
Gradle
Quarkus
Java
Objective-C
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Hibernate
Confluence
Elasticsearch
Spring Security
Kafka Streams
JUnit
Mockito
Git
EJB3
Vault
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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