Summary
Matheus Hofstede is a Brazilian senior full-stack engineer (backend-focused) based in Malta with 11 years of professional experience and 7+ years specializing in full-stack development. He has led migrations from monoliths to event-driven microservices, improved legacy JavaScript codebases by migrating 10k+ LOC to TypeScript, and optimized async bottlenecks to boost API responsiveness. Matheus has hands-on experience across cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), CI/CD automation, and production systems for fintech, edtech, and robotics clients, including integrations with trading platforms and work with companies like John Deere. As a tech lead and mentor, he has architected large-scale database migrations affecting 40K active users and structured residency programs that placed most of his mentees into jobs. He combines pragmatic engineering with DevOps practice while freelancing outside core roles, showing a strong appetite for continuous delivery and infrastructure automation. In code he trusts — and he pairs that credo with a track record of turning messy legacy systems into maintainable, well-tested platforms.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Engineering (Sistemas de Informação) with Honors, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Engineering (Sistemas de Informação) with Honors at Universidade Federal da Bahia
Portuguese, English, holandês