Open to new opportunities

Marco Oliveira

Senior Software Engineer

Building high-throughput backend systems for fintech & payments. 6+ years crafting scalable Go services processing thousands of transactions per minute.

// About

Get to know me

Marco Oliveira

Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building high-performance backend systems in Go. Specialist in fintech and payments, with experience at Itau/Rede (SPB modernization, transaction processing) and regulated payment institutions (BACEN/CADOC compliance). Track record of technical leadership and scaling systems to 2,000+ transactions/min.

Based in Aracaju, Brazil. Currently working at Asap Tech building automated regulatory document systems for credit card issuers. Open to remote opportunities worldwide.

Core Stack

Go gRPC REST APIs PostgreSQL Kafka AWS Kubernetes Docker OpenTelemetry Grafana DDD Hexagonal Architecture

// Experience

Where I've worked

CURRENT Mar 2025Present

Senior Software Engineer

Asap Tech

Architected automated CADOC regulatory document generation for 3 credit card issuers, integrating BACEN validator with 100% compliance accuracy and real-time alerts

Built and maintain 6+ report types on daily, weekly and monthly cycles using Go and RabbitMQ for async processing, deployed on AWS with Docker and Kubernetes

Apr 2024Mar 2025

Senior Software Engineer

Zup Innovation (Itau / Rede)

Contributed to SPB (Brazilian Payment System) service modernization at Itau, migrating critical financial infrastructure to multi-cloud architecture

Modernized Rede's transaction processing backend, redesigning services as BaaS components for multi-cloud deployment

Built observability dashboards with Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry; Go microservices with cell-based architecture and ArgoCD deploys

May 2022Apr 2024

Tech Lead

Klever

2,000+ tx/min 100K+ transfers 20K+ signups

Led team of 6 building multi-chain custody system for NFT games; processed 2,000+ on-chain tx/min avg, 100K+ off-chain transfers at launch

Built real-time blockchain audit system detecting unauthorized wallet transactions instantly, triggering progressive incident escalation pipeline

Managed real-time infrastructure scaling during Devikins launch (20K+ signups) — pod autoscaling, CPU and memory to absorb demand spikes

Jan 2021May 2022

Backend Developer

Klever

1M+ daily matches 5K concurrent users $250K+/day volume

Core contributor to Klever Exchange from POC to production: 1M+ daily order matches, 5K concurrent users, $250K+/day volume, 60+ trading pairs

Co-designed and built the core match engine with distributed, resilient architecture where each trading pair operated independently

Championed testing culture company-wide: introduced test pyramid practices, sqlmock for DB unit tests, and CI gates with SonarQube

Sep 2019Dec 2020

Mobile Developer

Klever (formerly Getty/IO)

Maintained and evolved TronWallet and Klever Browser, integrating multi-chain support (BTC, ETH, TRX, BNB). Stack: React Native, Redux, Jest, Espresso

// Skills

Technologies & tools

Languages & Frameworks

Go (Golang) gRPC REST APIs React Native

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes Helm ArgoCD

Messaging & Streaming

Apache Kafka RabbitMQ SQS SNS

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL Redis DynamoDB

Observability

OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana

Practices

SOLID DDD Hexagonal Arch Clean Code

// Contact

Let's work together

I'm currently open to new opportunities. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, feel free to reach out.