Victor Xavier Prado

Worked as Senior Software Engineer at Mindera.

Own infrastructure, delivery, and reliability for the MAN Truck Configurator (Configurator4Sale), a global SaaS platform serving customers across 15+ countries. Manage 10+ repositories across 7 environments.

• Wrote a reusable Prometheus metrics starter adopted across configurator microservices. Production incident detection went from hours to minutes.
• Ran a PoC showing 7× reduction in both CI

Real-time bet pattern analysis tools for Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest online sports betting operator ($16.4B revenue, ~16M monthly players, 100+ markets). Served FanDuel, PokerStars, PaddyPower, Betfair.

• Stream processing pipelines with KsqlDB and Kafka handling 700+ bets/sec, with spikes during major events.
• Complex event processing with Apache Flink, detecting patterns across

Distributed solution for a public sector entity. Integration architecture and cluster modernisation.

• API gateway on Apache Camel + Spring handling integration across multiple backend systems.
• Led migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes.
• Set up the observability stack from scratch (Prometheus, Grafana, Zipkin).
• CI/CD pipelines using JenkinsX on GitLab.

Joined as a backend engineer on the BaaS team and transitioned into platform engineering within 9 months. Ended up owning the CI/CD platform for the department.

• Designed reusable GitOps pipelines (GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Terraform/Terragrunt) covering deployment, infra provisioning, changelog generation, and API versioning.
• Operated Kubernetes clusters running microservices in Kotlin, .NET, and Go

Shipped BaaS features in Kotlin/Spring Boot and .NET Core within a microservice architecture. Worked on AWS infrastructure provisioning via Terraform and deployed through GitLab CI to Kubernetes. This period gave me the context that led to transitioning into platform engineering.

In this role, I focused on maintaining and enhancing application code, implementing new features, and contributing to project documentation within a Java-based team environment. The application was a desktop solution using Swing, designed to handle complex business rules specific to the automotive industry. This involved ensuring the application's stability and functionality without the use of fra

Provided support to customers who used the company's software and services, answering questions of our clients, analysis and assistance for possible incidents. With remote access to customer environments and applying the best solution, depending on each case.

Feb 2024 · Expires Feb 2027