Victor Basso

Worked on a social network and e-commerce platform for the vegan community powered by reactive microservices. Assumed backend leadership responsibilities, translating product requirements into technical plans, and owning production releases. Led development of major features, including Stripe integration for customer payments.

Contributed to user authentication and access management features for a global healthcare brand. Worked across the stack running on AWS Lambda with Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Go, and React. Improved monitoring and debugging of JWT-based auth flows by enhancing Datadog dashboards.

Developed a unified recommendation system for streaming services totalizing 79 million customers in 27 countries. Evolved a reactive microservice architecture enabling expansion to new territories and auto-scaled components to comply with high SLAs. Redesigned a component reducing write load to Cassandra by 13x and created data streaming pipelines.

Built a unified authorization API for a major Dutch bank within a large microservice ecosystem, providing for high availability, performance, and security requirements. Identified and solved memory leaks and latency bottlenecks, performing load testing with Gatling and LoadRunner. Maintained the API in production and monitored with Grafana, Graphite, Kibana, and Logstash.

Migrated a monolithic insurance system to microservices using Java and Spring Boot. Improved maintainability with database migrations and set up CI with GitLab and Docker.

Built REST services in Java, Spring, Hibernate, MongoDB, and Oracle for a logistics platform. Improved QA and CI/CD processes using SonarQube, Bamboo, Vagrant, and Chef.

Led development of backend and Android client for a geolocation-based app. Built core features and integrations using Java, Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

Built Web, Android, and Desktop applications in Java. Published research on graph algorithms.

Grade: Highest GPA in the Technology department

Activities and societies: Developed personal projects including a BitTorrent client with DHT in Scala and Akka actors, and a sound synthesiser in Rust.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Achieved the highest GPA within the Technology department, which resulted in a scholarship award.