Bruno Salgado
Tech Lead / Senior Backend Engineer
Greater Vancouver, Canada
Profile
Backend engineer and Tech Lead with 8+ years across Brazilian banking and fintech. Hands-on Java and Spring Boot development, payment-provider integrations, on-premises to AWS modernization, and technical leadership from architecture review through production troubleshooting.
Experience
Software Engineering Tech Lead
Jan 2025 - Present
Cloud Payments · EU / UK initiatives
Technical direction and hands-on delivery across payments initiatives, with responsibility for architecture review, integration boundaries and delivery risk.
- Align service ownership and implementation sequencing across concurrent initiatives so dependencies are explicit before development starts.
- Review designs for failure handling, data consistency and maintainability, connecting architecture decisions to delivery constraints.
- Work through technical escalations with engineers and external partners, bringing implementation findings back into the design.
Java Developer
Jul 2022 - Dec 2024
Cloud Payments · United States
Java and Spring Boot APIs for a fintech platform connecting banking, crypto and card providers.
- Implemented provider integrations with Circle, Fireblocks and Ibanera across financial workflows.
- Worked with architects and engineers to identify failure paths and improve error handling around external services.
- Supported reliable releases through automated testing, code review and CI/CD in Kubernetes environments.
Java Spring Developer
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
PROFIT Business Bank · United States
Backend services for business-banking financial reporting.
- Built services supporting cash flow statements and reporting workflows for business customers.
- Implemented APIs and asynchronous processing with attention to consistency and correctness of financial output.
Software Engineer
Feb 2019 - Dec 2021
Itau Unibanco · Brazil
Backend services, market-risk tooling and modernization in a regulated banking environment.
- Developed backend services and REST APIs supporting risk and regulatory workflows.
- Contributed to on-premises to AWS modernization and supported delivery through cloud and on-premises CI/CD pipelines.
- Worked with Kafka and AWS messaging, SQL and financial reporting systems where traceability and controlled changes mattered.
Intern
Jul 2017 - Jan 2019
Itau Unibanco · Brazil
Software development supporting risk metrics and regulatory reporting.
- Helped build a C# system for risk metrics required by the Brazilian Central Bank.
- Optimized SQL queries, procedures and functions, and built internal automations in Visual Basic.
Technical skills
- Backend & data
- Java 8-21, Spring Boot, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Oracle / PL/SQL, Liquibase, Maven
- Distributed systems
- Kafka, AWS SQS / SNS, Idempotency, Webhooks, Outbox pattern, Reconciliation, Fault tolerance
- Cloud & delivery
- AWS, EKS / ECR, IAM, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins
- Engineering quality
- JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test, Integration testing, Observability, Code review, Migration planning
- Technical leadership
- System design, Architecture reviews, Service ownership, Mentoring, Delivery planning, Cross-functional collaboration