Renato Vieira da Costa

About Renato Vieira da Costa

I have 17+ years of experience in software development and architecture.I have designed, implemented and improved software (architectures, features, standards) for different domains and companies over the years. Worked as an individual contributor, as part of small/large teams and organizations, as well as their leader.How Can I Help:* Hands-on software design/development, working individually, as a team member, leading teams, cross-teams, cross-organizations, cross-companies* Design, analyze, improve and simplify new or existing software designs, code, platforms, architectures, new or existing solutions* Research, document and create prototypes to assess business/engineering assumptions and ideas* Define/evaluate/refine software development practices (infrastructure, people, code, processes)* Define/refine hiring of software engineers* Foment an engaging, efficient and honest engineering culture, focused on collaboration and quality* Troubleshoot production issues across distributed applications and environments

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineering

   Upstart

   Dec 2022 — Present

   last update: 05/2024Upstart Auto Retail - Integrations / Core Services* Team responsible for third-party integrations (eg: CRM, DMS, notifications), as well as core backend services (eg: background/scheduled jobs)* Defined and implemented observability standards for existing and new integrations, including: metrics, contextual logging statements, dashboards, monitoring, alarming, schema definition and validation* Designed and implemented a solution for live downstream dependency mocking in order to enable automated API testing against deployed backend environments* Established methodology and standards for troubleshooting production issues, including: documentation, evidence gathering, logging and metrics analysis, performance analysis, root cause analysis, incident postmortem* Drove/Participated in design review sessions, helping identifying trade-offs and cross-boundary dependencies; suggesting improvements and alternative approaches; ensuring best practices and standards are followed* Responsible for business critical CRM integration for a large Auto Retail group with direct positive impact on revenueHighlighted technologies: node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Docker, Datadog, Sumo Logic, SendGrid.

Education

• Unisinos

  B.Sc., Computer Science

  2002 — 2007

Skills

• Continuous Integration
• Ruby on Rails
• Refactoring
• C++
• Coaching
• Soap
• Eclipse
• Neo4j
• Jboss
• Jquery
• C
• Tdd
• Pl/Sql
• Soa
• Servlets
• Java
• Xml
• Rest
• Javascript
• Spring
• Postgresql
• Jsf
• Software Engineering
• Agile
• Jsp
• Hudson
• Maven
• Kanban
• Oop
• Subversion
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• J2se
• Sql
• Linux
• Hibernate
• Jpa
• Shell Scripting
• Software Development
• Software Design