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 Talabat UAE flag (part of Delivery Hero Germany flag ), which is a QCommerce delivery company in MENA, based in Dubai, as a backend engineer, working with C#, AWS (SQS, SNS, Lambda, S3, SSM, EC2), SQL Server, Terraform, ArgoCD, CircleCI and other tools on QCommerce tribe (former Grocery tribe).

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 .NET Core, 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 (in years):

12+ C# .NET
12+ Microsoft SQL Server
10+ MySQL
8+ Node.JS
7+ .NET Framework
7+ Elastic Search
6+ .NET Core
4+ AWS (Amazon Web Services)
3+ Azure
3+ RabbitMQ
3+ PostgreSQL
1+ Apache Kafka

I have also worked with PHP since 2007 for freelance jobs.

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 and BaaS - Banking as a Service.
Microservices using gRPC for communication intra-process.
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 (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).
SAP (integration).
Database (management).
Agile methodologies.
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
General web development.
OSS projects in C# .NET, PHP, Rust and JS/TS, available at https://github.com/guibranco .

Time coded since Apr 10, 2015:

WORK EXPERIENCE

Talabat (part of Delivery Hero company)
(food ordering services | +3500 employees) Jul/2022 - Now Software Engineer / .NET Developer

Working on Grocery tribe in Grocery Finding and Shopping Team (FAST) squad.

Improve search, offers and shopping experience in Grocery tribe
Migration from monolithic architecture to microservices architecture
Building APIs and services with C# (.NET 6), SQL Server and PostgreSQL
Creating backend for frontend (BFF) API gateway using KrakenD, Luna and GoLang
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Jira

Jan/2022 - Jun/2022 (7 months) Software Engineer / .NET Developer

Working on Grocery tribe in Grocery Shopping Experience squad.

Improve search and shopping experience with Grocery tribe
Migration from monolithic architecture to microservices architecture
Building APIs and services with C# (.NET 5), Amazon SQS, SQL Server and PostgreSQL
Agile culture & cerimonies using Scrum and Kanban over Jira

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

Working on Grocery tribe 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
Building APIs and services with C# (.NET 5), Amazon SQS, Amazon Lambda, SQL Server and PostgreSQL
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

Working on 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 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 / NodeJS Developer

Working on the Open Banking project inside FCamara group.

IdP, DCR
White label
Integration with Banco Pan
Building APIs with NodeJs
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

Remotely working for Grace Kennedy Group, the biggest financial & food group in Jamaica and Caribbean area.

Remittance integration with Western Union
Digital wallet system
Building APIs with C# (.NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5), using CosmosDB, Entity Framework Core, Application Insights
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
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

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

Implementation of PIX (Brazilian Instantly payments - BACEN - Banco Central do Brasil)
Development of APIs and Services using .NET Core, Dapper, Entity Framework and DDD
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

Allocated in 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 .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 / +50k employees worldwide) Dec/2018 - June/2019 (7 months) Middle Software Engineer / .NET Developer / NodeJS Developer / System Analyst / Fullstack Developer

Allocated in C&A Modas, a worldwide fashion company with more than 50 thousand employees around the world. Only in Brazil has more than 16,000 direct employees

Development of integrations solutions using Zendesk, SAP, Oracle and other internal systems
Automation of payment/refund process using Adyen gateway
Automation of process using .NET Core
Develop new features and APIs using NodeJS (Express & HAPI)
Develop of an unified library in .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

Responsible for the in-house projects of the IT department.

Coordinate/support third party associates
Deploy SOLID principles in projects
Implement and evangelize CI/CD methodologies
Development of integrations solutions
Development of REST 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.

Development of REST APIs and MVC projects using .NET stack
Integration with VTEX (REST API and SOAP WebService)
Integration with payment gateway (MaxiPago)
Management of triggers and procedures in SQL Server databases
Disaster management and automated backup plans for SQL Server / Windows service and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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

Develop content platforms, video portals.

Development of video portals using MVC with Microsoft stack
Planning, modeling, implementation and process documentation - ERP
Requirements gathering
Monitoring and management of SQL Server

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

Main help desk and support.

Development of e-mails marketings
Formatting, maintenance and installation of micro-computers(Windows and Linux Ubuntu)
General software installation and configuration
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#, PHP, NodeJS, Bootstrap, Bulma, Materialize
One-off jobs, as a freelancer, using C#, PHP, SQL, NodeJS and Rust
Consultancy
Integrations with VTEX (SaaS e-commerce platform) using C# .NET framework
Integrations with Sankhya (ERP) using C# .NET framework and SQL Server
Integrations with payment gateways
EBAOH project - Products review platform with gamification