Paulo Avelar
Staff Software Engineer at Relay Technologies
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaulo Avelar is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading cross-functional engineering teams across payments, mobile, backend and embedded systems. He spent seven years focused on in-store payments and observability for millions of devices across Latin America, owning transactional flows, device onboarding APIs and certifications for multi-country payment schemes. Technically hands-on in Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Java and Kotlin, he routinely moves between backend performance and mobile/Android platform work for Smart POS. As a technical manager he has led large, distributed teams (80+ engineers across three countries) and driven product, stability and performance improvements in high-throughput payment systems. Fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish and currently learning French, he blends rigorous, pragmatic engineering with strong operational instincts. He’s self-taught in many practical areas and has a track record of rapidly delivering serverless and high-availability solutions under tight timelines.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de CampinasTechnical, Information Technology, Technical, Information Technology at E. M. Dr. Leandro Franceschini
French, English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (77)
javascript-framework10
command-line-tool10
tlv10
javascript10
pm210
html10
mobile-first10
decoder10
bootstrap10
css10
sass10
monitoring9
react-icons9
retrofit9
parser9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pauloavelar/inventory-counter
May 2017 - Jan 2021
Android app for manually counting inventory quickly
Contributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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pauloavelar/go-tlv
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Light TLV Decoder Library for Go
Contributions:4 releases, 59 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 10 months
gotlvgolangparserdecoder
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