Geraldo Andrade

Profile

Strategic Senior Software Engineer and technical leader with 16+ years of building enterprise-scale systems and guiding engineering excellence. Specialized in cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and transforming monolithic applications into resilient micro-services. Combines deep technical expertise in backend development with proven ability to mentor teams and drive organizational growth.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer; Frankfurt, Germany — 07/2023-current
DE-CIX

Back-end software engineer focused on Python, Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, and Azure. My main contributions are:

  • Infrastructure migration from on-premise to Azure Kubernetes
  • Implement event-driven architecture using Kafka
  • Mentoring working students and teammates
  • Improved CI/CD pipelines and development workflows
Senior Software Engineer / Cloud Architect at banbutsu; Berlin, Germany — 01/2021-07/2023

Back-end software engineer focused on Go, Kubernetes, Postgres, GCP, and Azure. My main contributions are:

  • Architect and implementation of banbutsu's platform using micro-services architecture
  • Standardising CI/CD processes with Gitlab pipelines, containers, and Helm deployments
  • Code as infrastructure implementation using Terraform and Ansible
  • Infrastructure migration from Azure to GCP (92% cost reduction)
  • Mentoring other engineers
Principal Software Engineer at Humanitec; Berlin, Germany — 12/2018-12/2020

Back-end software engineer focused on Python 3, Django, Go, Kubernetes, Postgres, and Google Cloud Platform. My main contributions are:

  • Improvement of CI/CD processes with automatic deployments using Helm
  • Move from a Python monolith to a Python/Go micro-services architecture
  • Improvement of REST API design, documentation and implementation
  • Mentoring junior engineers
  • Webinars using Humanitec Platform API integrating with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, and Azure
Team Leader at Catho; São Paulo, Brasil — 03/2018-12/2018

Engineering Team Leader managing 7 developers, focused on team growth, cloud migration, and technical mentorship.

  • Led cloud migration from on-premise infrastructure to AWS
  • Collaborated with Product Owner and Product Department
  • Mentored working students and junior developers
  • Technical mentorship across Python, JavaScript, Java, Scrum, and AWS
Senior Software Engineer Specialist at Catho; São Paulo, Brasil — 07/2017-02/2018

Web development specialist focused on legacy modernization and SalesForce integration.

  • Designed Node.js middleware API for SalesForce integration
  • Initiated Domain-Driven Design sessions for microservices decomposition
  • Architecture committee member advocating Golang, Node.js, Python, and AWS
Senior Software Engineer at Predicta; São Paulo, Brasil — 03/2013-06/2017

Back-end engineer at an ad tech company, building high-availability systems handling up to 40K requests/second.

  • Built the Data Management Platform (DMP) from the ground up in Java
  • Maintained Ad Serving and Tag Manager systems (3K-40K RPS)
  • Developed internal campaign management application
Lead Developer at Agência Blue; Alagoas, Brasil — 07/2012-03/2013

Full stack developer responsible for Blue Framework built in PHP 5 and the Blue Admin CMS.

Earlier Roles — 2008-2012

Back-end Engineer at Rino, Plus! Agência Digital · Working Student at UFAL (Data Warehouse, Python) · Intern at CEPAL · Entrepreneur at Brasil Terra Sat

References

banbutsu - Thomas Driemeyer, Michael Wolters
Humanitec - Dr. Christoph Richter, Chris Stephenson
Catho - Eber Machado, Yara Regina
Predicta - Marcelo Kronberg, Leandro Lages