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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