Pedro A. S. Benevides

pedro.augusto.sb@gmail.com+351 914-380-408Lisbon, PTlinkedin

Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience, primarily in high-growth startup environments. Expert in scaling web applications from initial development to global cloud deployment. Proven track record managing systems with 1 million daily active users and executing massive 30 TB database migrations with minimal downtime.

Experience

Senior Backend Developer

Sweatcoin
Jul 2024
  • Development and maintanance of the Apps' API Backend application in Ruby on Rails with 1 million daily active users.
  • Architected new features focusing on system monitoring, maintainability, and high-scale A/B testing.
  • Executed critical performance optimizations for the main application and underlying databases.
  • Engineered integrations with high-impact third-party services, including ad management and payment SDKs.
  • Mentored backend team members through technical leadership and rigorous code reviews.

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Wayleadr
Jun 2022 - Jul 2024
  • Managed the evolution of the main Ruby on Rails web applications and ReactJS frontend.
  • Maintained and scaled the company’s Python-based Slack application.
  • Built the internal infrastructure for error monitoring, code quality, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Integrated third-party ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) services and camera providers.
  • Advised engineering leadership on software architecture and industry best practices.

Senior Software Engineer

Wattics
Apr 2018 - Jun 2022
  • Successfully migrated a 30 TB central database from RDS MySQL to AWS Aurora with only seconds of downtime.
  • Developed core applications in Ruby on Rails while maintaining polyglot microservices in Java, Python, and NodeJS.
  • Implemented automated scaling and CI/CD pipelines on AWS (EC2, ECS, S3).
  • Modernized the frontend by migrating legacy JS libraries to a decoupled ReactJS repository.

Software Developer (Multiple levels)

Fortes Tecnologia
Sep 2014 - Apr 2018
  • Developed web platforms from scratch using Ruby on Rails.
  • Orchestrated the dockerization of applications and transition to AWS cloud servers.
  • Optimized asset delivery by implementing external CDNs.
  • Established the team's code review process and quality standards.

Software Developer

F.F.I.T - Serviços de Inovação e Tecnologia
May 2012 - Dec 2013
  • Development and maintanance of a Web application in Java Web with JSF 2.
  • Migration of the JSF Web application to Ruby on Rails.
  • Development of a mobile Android application using Java SDK.
  • Development of a WEB API for the mobile application using Ruby on Rails.
  • Mentoring of other two interns in the team.

Education

IFCE - Brazil

Bachelors in Computing Engineering
Feb 2012 - Apr 2007

Skills

Languages

Ruby (Ruby on Rails), Javascript (ReactJS, TypeScript, BackboneJS, ExtJS, jQuery), Python (Django)

Cloud/DevOps

AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, Aurora, RDS, S3), Docker, CI/CD.

Databases

Postgres, Mysql, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB

Languages

English— Fluent
Portuguese— Native Speaker
Spanish— Actively Studying