Álvaro Felipe Mendes Soares

Founder & CEO, Catraca.co (concurrent)

Jan 2017 – Present · Bootstrapped · Brazil & LATAM

Vertical SaaS for restaurants, ice cream shops, and retail. Bootstrapped over 9 years while working concurrent senior engineering roles.

• Platform processes 10,000+ deliveries/month at peak with R$2.5M+ in transactions processed historically and 100k+ deliveries served.
• Architected multi-tenant SaaS using Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Keycloak on AWS infrastructure.
• Built integrated marketplace, digital menu, kitchen Kanban workflow, and last-mile logistics with gamified driver retention system.
• Implemented payment processing (Pagar.me, EFI Bank) and recurring billing with Kill Bill engine.
• Expanded operations internationally to Paraguay and Peru; led product, engineering, and commercial teams.

Platform Engineer, PraValer · São Paulo, Brazil

Mar 2023 – Mar 2025

• Developed and maintained the internal developer platform on Backstage.io (TypeScript), standardizing developer experience across the organization.
• Built a self-service infrastructure module on Backstage.io backed by Terraform, letting developers provision AWS resources (secrets, S3 buckets, SQS queues, and more) from a form, removing the platform team as a bottleneck for routine provisioning.
• Built a new contract management service from scratch for educational institutions, designed for scale and reliability.
• Proposed and shipped Docker image standardization for production and development, reducing deployment friction across teams.

Senior Software Engineer, SysMap Solutions @ Sodexo · São Paulo, Brazil

Dec 2021 – Mar 2023

• Modernized legacy platforms (Oracle APEX) into a microservices architecture using PHP (Lumen/Laravel + Octane).
• Designed services to handle benefits management for one of the largest meal voucher providers in Brazil.

Senior Full Stack Engineer, Buser Brasil · São José dos Campos, Brazil

Feb 2021 – Dec 2021

• Designed and shipped the incident management system integrating support, ops, commercial, legal, and finance teams at Brazil's largest collaborative bus charter platform.
• Drove process automation to support fast-growing operations and scale customer support throughput.

Senior Software Engineer, DeliverIT / PAYGO (C6 Bank Group) · São Paulo, Brazil

Feb 2020 – Nov 2020

• Built features and integrations for payment infrastructure serving the C6 Bank ecosystem.
• Replaced legacy services with modern stack and helped roll out DevOps practices across the engineering org.

Backend Software Engineer, Goon Marketing · Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

Sept 2019 – Jan 2020

• Built e-commerce tooling focused on conversion optimization, working in a cross-cultural Spanish-speaking team.

Software Developer, Prime Tecnologia · Almenara, Brazil

Jun 2015 – Jan 2020

• Led requirement analysis and coordinated the development team for public-sector software products.

Facebook Whitehat — Bug Bounty Program

Palo Alto, California · 2014

Identified and responsibly disclosed a security vulnerability in Facebook's main product. Acknowledged in Facebook's Whitehat Hall of Fame and awarded bounty.

facebook.com/whitehat/profile/alvarofelipems

“Pense Grande” Startup Incubation

Fundação Telefônica VIVO · São Paulo, Brazil · Dec 2020

Selected for an entrepreneurship incubation program by Fundação Telefônica and Aliança Empreendedora.

Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas (Systems Analysis & Development)

Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas Gerais — Almenara, Brazil

Jul 2013 – Oct 2019

Uncomplicating Kubernetes (Descomplicando Kubernetes)

LINUXtips · 2021

English — Conversational & Business

Private tuition · 2020 – 2022