Summary
Vinicius Castro is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building reliable, event-driven microservices and high-throughput APIs using Java and Kotlin, now working at Mercado Livre Brasil. He has a strong track record in ETL and financial reconciliation pipelines at scale, having cut a compliance file generation job from 12 hours to 1 hour and driven a 130% increase in product creation using AI-assisted ToS checks. Comfortable across the stack—Node.js, Angular, Ionic, databases from DynamoDB to Postgres and MongoDB—he brings DevOps-minded engineering with AWS certifications, Kubernetes/Helm experience, and production observability via Kibana and New Relic. Known for rapid adaptation and proactive problem-solving, he emphasizes idempotency, retry/DLQ patterns and cost-efficient architectures. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he blends full-stack roots with a specialty in data pipelines and resilient distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience