José Ricardo Alves Figueirôa

Senior software engineer with solid experience in backend development and strong fullstack capability, including cloud infrastructure and frontend interfaces. Fast learner with excellent technical skills.

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Experience

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Jusfy

Oct 2025 — Present · Brazil

Tech Lead, Platform Squad

May 2026 — Present

Leading a 3-4 engineer platform squad building backend and frontend systems for a lawtech product with ~15k MAU
Driving a unified SSO login and renewing the authentication architecture on OAuth2/OIDC
Leading squad planning, code reviews, and technical interviews

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2025 — Apr 2026

Built a churn recovery campaign system with dynamic offers, reactivating thousands of paying users
Led migration of the invoicing provider to a queue-driven architecture, scaling to thousands of invoices per day
Contributed to system design discussions focused on reliability and scalability of event-driven workflows

Node.js · TypeScript · NestJS · Java · React · PostgreSQL · AWS · Ory

Backend Developer · Beyond Co.

Jun 2023 — Oct 2025 · Brazil

Technical owner of legal automation platform, helping 10x growth in active clients
Built and maintained legal automation flows with Node.js, Puppeteer and BullMQ, achieving 2,000+ daily runs
Fixed critical failures increasing automation success rate by 10+ percentage points
Modernized NodeJS codebase, tripling startup speed and improving developer experience
Implemented observability features (metrics and alerts), reducing incident detection and resolution time

Node.js · NestJS · Express · Puppeteer · BullMQ · RabbitMQ · GCP

Fullstack Developer · NavalPort

Oct 2022 — Jun 2023 · Brazil

Led development of mooring monitoring system, reducing maneuvering risks and equipment wear
Built AIS-based vessel tracking system for real-time port operations and logistics
Developed interactive dashboards with D3.js improving security team efficiency
Introduced Swagger and AWS SAM, standardizing APIs and implementing Infrastructure as Code

Node.js · NestJS · Angular · PostgreSQL · RabbitMQ · Docker · AWS · Terraform

IoT Engineer · Ausy / Orange

Mar 2022 — Sep 2022 · France

Consultant at Orange working on Test as a Service platform for SmartTV end-to-end testing
Proposed architectures, data models and network configurations for existing infrastructure
Fullstack development with AWS, Angular, Java and Node.js

Angular · Node.js · Java · Spring Boot · Docker · Microservices

Fullstack Developer · NavalPort

Jul 2020 — Jul 2021 · Brazil

Developed and deployed software and physical systems for port security and intelligence
Built vessel arrival detection using AIS, mooring monitoring, and maneuver planning features

Node.js · Express · Angular · PostgreSQL · AWS Lambda

Fullstack Developer (Internship) · NavalPort

Feb 2019 — Jul 2019 · Brazil

Backend and frontend development for port management systems

Node.js · Express · Angular

Projects

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CargoSight

Gerdau

B2B SaaS using computer vision to monitor industrial areas and detect operational risks in real time: missing PPE, hazardous zones, suspended load movement.

Won 2nd place in University of Pernambuco's innovation program
Validated PoC at Gerdau's steel plant, later sold to two ports
Integrated IP cameras, CNNs, and IoT layers for automated alerts

Python · Flask · Computer Vision · NestJS · React · MongoDB

Education

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Master's in Computer Engineering

Polytech Côte D'Azur · France

Exchange Program
Research on Simulation and Testing for Autonomous Vehicles with Inria

Bachelor's in Computer Engineering

GPA 8.8/10

Federal University of Pernambuco · Brazil

Teaching Assistant in Logic and Computation Theory
Scientific Research in Logic

Skills

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Node.js (6yrs) JavaScript (6yrs) TypeScript (6yrs) NestJS (4yrs) Express (4yrs) PostgreSQL (3yrs) AWS (3yrs) RabbitMQ (3yrs) Angular (3yrs) Puppeteer (2yrs) BullMQ (2yrs) GCP (2yrs) Java (1yr) React (1yr) Ory (1yr) Docker (1yr) Terraform (1yr) Spring Boot (1yr) AWS Lambda (1yr) Computer Vision Flask Microservices MongoDB Python

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Languages

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Portuguese (Native) · English (Advanced) · French (Fluent)

Interests

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Languages and linguistics
Theology (Reformed Christian)
Jiu Jitsu (Blue Belt), Boxing and Judo
Favorite game: Dark Souls
Culinary arts