Álex Vidigal

Software Engineer and Technology Instructor specialized in developing APIs for fintechs within DLT and blockchain environments, with experience in legal compliance for financial services in Brazil and the United Kingdom, as well as secure handling of private data. Passionate about computer science, people and communication.

Eight years of experience in software development and hands-on programming projects, working across a broad stack with a focus on back-end development, bug fixing, and creating test suites, managing QA processes alongside product teams, and developing utility libraries. Experience in system architecture, and agile methodologies. Possesses deep knowledge in microservices architecture, development patterns such as MVC and SOLID, and best practices for testing and scalability. An enthusiast of agile methodologies, with experience in Scrum and Kanban for project management. As an instructor, has tutored students in software development cohorts, led office hours, and guided computer science module projects.

Base de atuação (Node): London – UK

I – Competências

– Programming languages: Java, Spring, Python, JavaScript, Solidity, Python, Golang, GrafhQL, among others.

– Software Architecture & Design: Model-View-Controller (MVC), Microservices Architecture, SOLID Principles.

– Development & Programming: Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Test-Driven Development (TDD).

– PIs & System Communication: ESTful API Development

– Agile Methodologies & Project Management: Scrum (Sprints, Daily Meetings, Retrospectives), Kanban (Workflow Management)

II – Experiência profissional

– Quant (United Kingdom): Sales Engineer – providing prospecting customers with product demos and technical support before and after sales; supporting marketing with technical insights and writing; and upholding the utmost standards of a great customer experience and customer success.

– Quant (United Kingdom): Software Engineer – worked at the team responsible for the customer-facing API, maintaining quality standards through a well tested code base and deployment pipeline and designing solutions with great care for the customer experience.

– Trybe (Brazil): Computer Science Curriculum Analyst – maintained automatic evaluators for students’ programming projects; maintained didactic texts of the computer science course; measurably improved the NPS of the course by 3 points out of 10.

– Quanto (Brazil): Software Engineer – leading the market on the implementation of open banking standards; back-end development compliant to the heavily regulated financial service industry; safeguarded the sensitive user data according to the at-the-time emerging data protection regulations.

– Bank of Brasília (Brazil)- Intern Software Engineer – back-end development; customer support; developed bespoke solutions in partnership with the DBA to structure internal data and noticeably improve application loading times.