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Ninja report

The official record the village keeps on me: missions completed, jutsu mastered, and the academy I barely survived. The paper version exists too.

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name
Simão Júnior · reg. 012-607
village
São Paulo, BR · UTC-3
rank
Jōnin · senior backend engineer
contact
[email protected] · github · linkedin · bluesky
status
active duty · open to interesting missions

Intel summary

Backend engineer with 5+ years developing critical, scalable systems in high-availability environments (~15 TPS, 40,000+ monthly transactions). End-to-end involvement, from planning to production, with a culture of ownership, technical leadership, and documentation (RFCs, ADRs). Solid experience designing distributed systems and microservices architectures.

  • S Cut operational costs by 40% through automation and process optimization with N8N.
  • A Saved 80 hours/month by automating commercial reports integrated with internal systems.
  • A Accelerated deployments by 80% (5 min → 1 min) with CI/CD via GitHub Actions, Docker, and Azure Container Registry.

Mission history

4 missions · 0 failed
2026
Senior Backend Engineer · Caveo · hybrid
  • Technically led the refactoring of a legacy system into a microservices architecture, optimizing the onboarding flow on the road to 20,000 users.
  • Designed and implemented an event-driven architecture (fan-out) with AWS SNS/SQS between a Next.js BFF and the backend.
2025–26
Backend Engineer (Mid III) · Caveo · hybrid
  • Built backend services with Node.js, TypeScript, Koa.js, and PostgreSQL (TypeORM) on AWS (SNS, SQS, Cognito, S3).
  • Led integrations with business-critical providers: KYC via QItech, and operational/sales automation via Pipefy and Pipedrive with N8N.
2023–25
Backend Engineer · Nextcode · remote
  • Architected an onboarding system with facial biometrics, OCR, taxpayer ID validation, and proof of life, processing 40,000+ monthly transactions (~15 TPS).
  • Integrated Serpro and Receita Federal APIs, raising approval rates and cutting fraud; built a biometric risk-scoring system that reduced chargebacks.
  • Automated commercial reports and alerts with N8N, saving 80 hours/month with 100% SLA compliance.
  • Built a WhatsApp notification service on NATS.io; shipped a Flutter app for private events with KYC.
  • Mentored interns, introduced an RFC process, and created CI/CD pipelines that cut deploys from 5 minutes to 1.
2021–23
Backend Engineer (Junior) · Nextcode · remote
  • Documented company APIs and evolved legacy solutions with clean code practices and automated tests.
  • Built RESTful APIs with Node.js/Fastify, TypeScript, and MongoDB.

Jutsu registry

backend
TypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsElixirSQLRESTGit
databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisMySQL
messaging
AWS SNSAWS SQSNATS.iowebhooks
devops
AWSDockerGitHub ActionsCI/CDN8N
training
system designGoleadershipmicroservices

Academy record

2018–21
B.Sc. Information Systems · Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, São Paulo

Languages

portuguese
native
english
advanced
handler's note
Self-taught, startup-hardened, and still training. Approach with interesting problems; he will not go rogue, but he will ask for an RFC.