Joao Pedro de Lira Wojcikiewicz

Senior Backend Engineer

Asuncion, Paraguay

Summary

Backend engineer focused on reliability and cloud modernization.

Strong record of improving latency, cost, and delivery speed.

Skills

Core technical

Backend Systems Design Distributed Systems Cloud Architecture SOLID CLEAN Platform thinking

Backend

Python Go CI/CD

Data

Postgres MySQL MongoDB

Cloud

AWS Google Cloud Terraform Pubsub architecture Kubernetes Observability

Soft skills

Tech lead Documentation Project management Developer experience

Experience

2024-12 – 2026-05

Senior Backend Engineer

Ambassador Software

Senior backend engineer working on a high-throughput SaaS platform, responsible for system reliability, observability, and architectural clarity under aggressive delivery timelines.

  • Led end-to-end instrumentation of backend services, improving traceability and reducing customer support troubleshooting time by more than 3x.
  • Introduced backward-compatible standard API error contracts across legacy clients.
  • Established architectural documentation and decision records (ADR), improving accountability and long-term maintainability.
  • Refactored core codebase and database layers with a focus on safety, clarity, and robust error handling.
  • Reduced deployment time from over one hour to approximately 15 minutes by integrating elastic cloud resources and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Acted as technical interface with customer support, producing clear and actionable operational documentation.
  • Built a modular, auditable, reliable and reusable rewards/payment system, serving thousands of users of our clients, with approval processes in place.
Python AWS Postgres Prometheus Terraform

2021-05 – 2024-12

Senior Backend Engineer

League Inc

Senior engineer on the core Platform team, responsible for backend libraries, cloud infrastructure, and system extensibility serving large-scale healthcare products.

  • Recognized multiple times for code quality, architectural proposals, and cross-team collaboration.
  • Led the design and delivery of an extensible user-deletion platform feature involving multiple stakeholders.
  • Planned and executed zero-downtime API gateway deployment on existing production infrastructure.
  • Drove platform extensibility initiatives enabling the system to scale to 10x current user volume with customer-specific customization.
  • Frequently engaged to unblock other teams facing tight delivery deadlines.
Go MongoDB Kubernetes GCP Prometheus Serverless

2021-05 – 2022-05

Software Specialist

e-Core

Embedded senior engineer within a client squad operating as part of League Inc.’s platform team.

  • Fully integrated with client engineering workflows, contributing directly to platform initiatives.
  • Shared platform and infrastructure knowledge with internal engineers.

2019-05 – 2020-05

Fullstack and Machine Learning Engineer

code7

Full-stack engineer within the data science team, responsible for building a SaaS platform to deploy, manage, and consume machine learning models.

  • Delivered the first production-ready version of the platform (backend and frontend) in under six months.
  • Designed backend services using Django and Django REST Framework with Redis and PostgreSQL.
  • Built Angular-based frontend to simplify model consumption by analysts, significantly improving productivity.
  • Defined deployment and training protocols allowing new models to be deployed in seconds.
Python Scikit Learn Angular Django PostgreSQL Docker