Summary
Fernando Guimarães is a Principal Full Stack Software Engineer based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with two decades of hands-on experience building and rescuing production systems across web, mobile, and embedded domains. He combines deep backend expertise (Node.js, Java, .NET, databases) with front-end and DevOps know-how, recently improving Confluence products via Redis caching and Puppeteer clustering to boost reliability and performance. Fernando has led rapid, high-pressure delivery efforts—most notably a two-week COVID relief meal-card platform coordinating 30 developers—and consistently turns legacy systems into maintainable, user-focused products. His background spans government payroll, billing and GPS tracking systems, and integrations with SOAP-based public services, showing strong domain adaptability. He pairs client-facing product leadership with meticulous engineering: gathering requirements, architecting solutions, mentoring teams, and driving deployments. Fluent in English and passionate about technology, he often tackles hard operational problems that others avoid, like binary device protocols and large-scale measurement error detection.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Pós Graduação, Computer Software Engineering, Pós Graduação, Computer Software Engineering at PUC Minas
Administração Financeira, Finance, General, Administração Financeira, Finance, General at Centro Universitário Unihorizontes
English, English Language and Literature, General, English, English Language and Literature, General at International House Dublin
English, Portuguese