Summary
André De Fontana Ignacio is a Staff Software Engineer based in São Paulo with over 15 years in Java development and a decade-plus leading architecture initiatives across fintech, e‑commerce and enterprise media. He blends hands‑on expertise in Spring, Kafka, RabbitMQ and both SQL and NoSQL datastores with practical cloud and DevOps experience—Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD and observability—having driven migration to continuous delivery and feature‑flag releases. As a former solutions and system architect, he has repeatedly modernized monoliths into microservices, introduced testing and monitoring standards, and led platform work that included EMR on Kubernetes and Istio service mesh. He’s shipped cross‑team integrations (notably in automotive financing at Unico/Vianuvem) and has rewritten legacy systems in Go to improve scalability and developer velocity. André’s background includes speaking at international events such as Red Hat Summit and Spring One, reflecting a sustained engagement with the broader platform community. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who pairs deep design knowledge (DDD, Clean Architecture, GOF) with day‑to‑day coding discipline.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Portuguese, English