Walter Alves

Walter Alves has over 9 years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in roles such as Senior Software Engineer, Lead Software Engineer, and Founder Software Engineer. Walter has worked at various companies including Higlobe, Reliant, Eximio LLC, Writtio, Jaya Tech, Loggi, Laboratório de Sistemas Distribuídos, Software Practices Laboratory, AATAG Tecnologias, and Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing Laboratory.

At Jaya Tech, Walter led a team of 6 people and was responsible for maintaining and developing new features for the PWNHealth Core application using Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, MySQL, Redis, Docker, and Kubernetes. Walter also utilized AWS products such as S3, Elasticache, RDS, Lambda, and API Gateway.

At Laboratório de Sistemas Distribuídos, Walter worked on projects with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo Enterprise. Walter focused on improving Federation concepts in container-based infrastructure using Kubernetes. Walter also worked on enhancing Management as a Service (MaaS) concepts and adding a new management level in the Red Hat ManageIQ tool.

Additionally, Walter has experience in developing web platforms using Groovy on Rails and MongoDB, working with financial terminals, and creating loyalty program tools using C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.

Walter began their career as a Software Engineer Intern at the Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing Laboratory, where they developed applications for Smart TVs using the Ginga framework.

Overall, Walter Alves has a diverse background in software engineering, with a strong focus on backend development, cloud infrastructure, and project leadership.

Walter Alves pursued their education in the field of computer science and software engineering. Walter obtained a degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Software Engineering and Distributed Systems from the Federal University of Campina Grande, where they studied from 2010 to 2015. Prior to this, they completed a Computing technician program at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraiba from 2007 to 2008. This program focused on Maintenance and support in computing equipments and computer networks. Additionally, in January 2019, Walter Alves obtained a certification in DevOps Essentials from CertiProf®.