ABOUT ME

Software engineer, well experienced with C# .NET and Node.JS working with financial services, e-commerce, integrations, web and desktop solutions since 2012.

Currently working in OUTsurance, which is an insurance company in South Africa South Africa flag . Based in Dublin, Ireland Ireland flag as a senior software engineer, working in the Irish project, using C# .NET 7, Azure DevOps, RabbitMQ, Azure Cosmos DB, Terraform and other tools on Billing & Finance project.

Previously worked inTalabat UAE flag (part of Delivery Hero Germany flag ), which is a QCommerce delivery company in MENA, based in Dubai, UAE, as a backend engineer, working with C# (.NET Core/5/6/7), Docker, AWS (SQS, SNS, Lambda, S3, SSM, EC2), Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Terraform, ArgoCD, CircleCI and other tools on QCommerce tribe (formerly Grocery tribe) in Shopping Experience (ShopX) squad (formerly Finding and Shopping Team - FAST). Using TDD, DDD & SOLID.

Previously worked at BS2 bank Brazil flag , for an year and a half. During this period, participated on two teams (PIX and B2B/enterprises) developing the PIX (Brazilian Instant Payments system), also developing APIs and Open Banking integrations, contact with B2B clients, regulatory agencies, other banks and technical teams from partners to provide the best solution for both sides! Using C# .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, RabbitMQ, supported by DDD architecture, SOLID, DRY & KISS principles.

I am excited to contribute my strengths and proficiency in innovation toward your team efforts. As an extroverted and personable communicator with a proven track record in technical writing, my focus on building strong professional relationships has been a valuable asset throughout my career.

Work permit (no sponsorship required):

Portuguese passport - European Union
Brazilian passport - Latin America

**Experience:**
Years	Technology
12+	C# .NET
12+	Javascript
12+	Microsoft SQL Server
10+	MySQL
8+	Node.JS
7+	.NET Framework
7+	Elastic Search
6+	.NET Core
6+	Redis
4+	AWS (Amazon Web Services)
3+	Azure
3+	RabbitMQ
3+	PostgreSQL
3+	Apache Kafka
2+	Next.JS
2+	Redux
2+	Azure CosmosDB
16+	PHP

* Working with PHP as a freelancer since 2007.

Check out some projects I worked on:

Food & Grocery delivery - Shopping Experience & Order Fulfillment
Product Information Management (PIM)
Integration with Western Union for remittance across countries
Digital wallet (payments, transfers, remittance, balance, statement, mobile top-up, credit card)
PIX - Brazilian Instantly Payments System (SPI/PIX - BACEN)
Open Banking - Brasil - BACEN
Banking as a Service (BaaS)
Microservices culture
Distributed systems using RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka
Gateway integrations with MaxiPago, Adyen and PayPal
OnBoarding and Internet Banking projects for B2B customers
Vitrine do Artesanato (integration) - e-commerce
VTEX e-commerce PaaS (integration)
Sankhya (ERP) / SAP (ERP) (management, analysis, integration)
Vitrine do Artesanato Digital - digital video platform (development)
Vitrine do Artesanato na TV - digital video content portal (development)
Canal do Artesanato - subscription learning platform (development)
Zendesk (integration)
Database management
Agile methodologies
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
General web development
Open Source Software (OSS) projects in C# .NET, PHP, Rust and JS/TS, available at https://github.com/guibranco .

Time coded:

* Coding since 2007 but stats available only from April 10, 2015.

WORK EXPERIENCE

OUTsurance (part of OUTsurance South Africa )
(insurance services | +200 employees) April/2023 - Now Senior Software Engineer / .NET Developer

Working in Finance & Billing project

Develop billing, collections, payments scheduler system
Integration with policy administration portal
Building APIs and services with C# .NET 7, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ and CosmosDB
Setup infrastructure with IaC using Terraform
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum over Jira

Talabat (part of Delivery Hero company)
(food ordering services | +16000 employees) Jan/2022 - March/2023 (1 year and 3 months) Software Engineer / .NET Developer

Working in Shopping Experience squad (former FAST - Finding and Shopping Team squad)

Improve search, offers and shopping experience in Grocery tribe / QCommerce tribe
Migration from monolithic architecture to microservices architecture
Building APIs and services with C# (.NET 5/6/7), Amazon SQS, SQL Server and PostgreSQL
Configure backend for frontend (BFF) API gateway using KrakenD, Luna and GoLang
DDD (Domain Driven Design) and TDD (Test Driven Development) approaches
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum over Jira

May/2021 - Dec/2021 (8 months) Software Engineer / .NET Developer

Working in Grocery Fulfillment squad.

Improve quality of fulfillment process working together with all grocery tribe
Migration from monolithic architecture to microservices architecture
Item heartbeat / grocery catalog availability monitoring, providing pickers to set an item unavailable at handle & ship process
Item replacement allowing customers, pickers and backoffice change unavailable itens on an order
Robocalls, automated phone calls with Asterisk integration
Building APIs and services with C# (.NET 5), Amazon SQS, Amazon Lambda, SQL Server and PostgreSQL
DDD (Domain Driven Design) approach
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Jira

Syndigo
(product information management | +600 employees) June/2021 - Nov/2021 (6 months) Senior Software Engineer / .NET Developer

(Part-Time / Contract) Working in Customer Experience Hub (CXH) platform.

Integrations with Instacart and BestBuy
Improve quality of code, fixing code smells and bugs
Building APIs and services with C# (.NET Core 3.1/.NET 5), Azure Blob Storage and SQL Server
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Jira and Azure DevOps

FCamara group
(financial services | +500 employees) May/2021 - August/2021 (4 months) Senior Software Engineer / Node.JS Developer

(Part-Time / Contract) Working for FCamara, in the Open Banking / Open Finance project.

Developing IdP (Identity Provider), DCR (Dynamic Client Registration) R
Developing White Label platform
Integration with Banco Pan
Building APIs with Node.JS, Cosmos Db, Azure Service Bus
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Azure DevOps

Grace Kennedy Group (The Bridge Social - consulting)
(financial services | +800 employees) Feb/2021 - May/2021 (4 months) Senior Software Engineer / .NET Developer

(Part-time / Contract) Working for Grace Kennedy Group, the biggest financial & food group in Jamaica and Caribbean area.

Remittance integration with Western Union
Digital wallet system
Building API and Services with C# (.NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5), using CosmosDB, Microsoft Azure Service Bus, Entity Framework Core, Dapper, Application Insights, RPA (Robotic Procedure Automation)
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Azure DevOps

Farfetch (Multivision - consulting)
(e-commerce platform | +6k employees) Dec/2020 - May/2021 (6 months) Senior Software Engineer / .NET Developer

Allocated in Farfetch, a leading global platform in the luxury fashion online market.

Being part of Search & Scouts team
Development of improvements in the search services of the platform
Development solutions using Kafka, Cassandra, C# (.NET Core), Elastic Search
Working side-by-side with Data Scientists team providing data and schemes for our project
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Jira

Banco BS2 (K2 Partnering - consulting)
(financial services | +2k employees) March/2020 - Jan/2021 (11 months) Senior Software Engineer / .NET Developer

Working for BS2 bank, a digital bank company in the special projects team, part of financial services division.

Implementation of PIX/SPI (Brazilian Instantly payments - BACEN - Banco Central do Brasil)
Development of APIs and Services using C# .NET Core, Dapper, Entity Framework and DDD
Architecture of the CORE PIX and Indirect PIX solutions inside the BS2 Bank
Development of accounting system for Indirect PIX partners
Development of distributed systems using RabbitMQ
Deploy and development using Docker containers
Supporting internal clients in integration process
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Azure DevOps

July/2019 - March/2020 (9 months) Middle Software Engineer / .NET Developer

Working for BS2 bank, a digital bank company in the B2B tribe, on API Banking squad.

Development of API banking product (https://devs.bs2.com) - BaaS (Banking as a Service)
Development of open banking project
Development of APIs and Services using C# .NET Core, Dapper, Entity Framework and DDD
Development of distributed systems using RabbitMQ
Deploy and development using Docker containers
Supporting clients in integration process
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Team Foudantion Services (TFS)

C&A Modas (Foco em Você - consulting)
(fashion company | +16k employees Brazil) Dec/2018 - June/2019 (7 months) Middle Software Engineer / .NET Developer / Node.JS Developer / System Analyst / Fullstack Developer

Working for C&A Modas, a worldwide fashion company with more than 16 thousand employees working on e-commerce team, on refund/reversal squad.

Development of integrations solutions using Zendesk, SAP, Oracle and other internal systems
Automation of payment/refund process using Adyen gateway
Automation of process using C# .NET Core
Develop new features and APIs using Node.JS (Express & HAPI)
Develop of an unified library in C# .NET Core to be used internally by all teams, with commons & utils needs
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Jira

Editora Inovação / Inovação Media Brasil
(content producer / online retail seller | +100 employees) Jan/2016 - Nov/2018 (3 years) Development Coordinator

Head of development in IT department. Managing developers team, agencies and associates.

Development of services and APIs using C# (.NET Framework 4.7/4.8/4.8.1 and .NET Core 2.1)
Implement SOLID principles
Implement Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ for distributed systems process
Implement Elastic Search and Kibana for log & metrics purposes
Development of an internal search engine using data from Elastic Search (clients, orders and orders items)
Deploy, evangelize and speech of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
Development of integrations solutions
Development of RESTful APIs for mobile apps
Coordinate the development of a CRM system
DevOps culture
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Trello and RunRun.It

Nov/2013 - Dec/2015 (2 years) Software Development Analyst

Development of paid subscription platform, integration with services and APIs, resource management.

Website development using ASP.NET C# .NET technology and MVC standard
Web API 2 (C# .NET) web applications for user data access (via client web application) and restricted access data management of other internal projects
Application development for product and order integration with the Smart Checkout / VTEX platform (SOAP web service / REST API)
Payment gateway integration - MaxiPago for subscription management
Management of triggers and procedures in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database
Disaster Management / Automated Backup Plans on Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Server
Automated backup with Amazon Web Service (AWS) S3

Nov/2012 - Oct/2013 (1 year) IT Analyst / JR Developer

Develop content platforms, video portals, internal systems and integrations.

Development of video portal using C# .NET language and MVC standard
Development of service integration tool (SOAP web service and REST API) in C# .NET
Monitoring and management of SQL Server database
Requirements gathering
Monitoring and management of SQL Server
Planning, modeling, implementation and process documentation - ERP (Sankhya)

Nov/2011 - Oct/2012 (1 year) Internship - IT

Main help desk and support.

Development of emails marketings campaigns (coding, triggering, reports)
Formatting, maintenance and installation of micro-computers(Windows and Linux Ubuntu)
General software installation and configuration
Development of internal systems in VB.NET
Development of system (VB.NET) for management of digital PBX (Total IP)
Development of new features, tools and bug fixes in existing projects (classic ASP and PHP)

Freelance Software Developer 2007 - Now Developer / Analyst / Consultant

Acting as an independent consultant for some companies, worked on some projects per contract / deliveries.

Development of portals and applications using: C# .NET, PHP, Node.JS, Bootstrap, Bulma, Materialize
One-off jobs, as a freelancer, using C# .NET, PHP, SQL, Node.JS and Rust
Consultancy
Integrations with VTEX (SaaS e-commerce platform) using C# .NET framework
Integrations with Sankhya (ERP) using C# .NET framework and Microsoft SQL Server
Integrations with payment gateways
EBAOH project - Products review platform with gamification