Bruno Ribeiro do Vale
Senior Backend / Platform Engineer
Fintech · Payments · Distributed Systems · AWS · TypeScript
Summary
Backend and platform engineer with 10+ years in technology, specialized in financial systems, SaaS and AWS infrastructure, experienced across the complete software lifecycle: architecture, cloud, databases, security, observability, CI/CD and production operations.
Former hands-on CTO of a payments platform serving ~1,000 merchants and 15 white-label partners, processing up to BRL 6M/month in TPV. Experienced designing, building and operating critical transactional systems in production — from payment integrations (Pix, PSPs, webhooks, reconciliation) to private networking, mTLS and secrets management.
AI-driven engineering since day one of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot → ChatGPT → Claude Code), now running several products in parallel, plus AI inside products: locally hosted LLMs and Whisper, an MCP server and agent-ready documentation.
Experience
Founder & CTO — BRV Desenvolvimento de Sistemas
2026 – PresentIn-house SaaS products and custom systems. Hands-on across architecture, backend, infrastructure, payments, tax compliance and product, building with AI coding agents.
- •Conttrole — tax and finance SaaS with 1,900+ commits and ~5,600 automated tests since Mar 2026: Brazilian e-invoicing (NF-e, NFC-e, NFS-e, incl. IBS/CBS tax reform), public Fastify/OpenAPI API, webhooks with delivery history and retries, white-label resold by partners and an MCP server
- •Multi-gateway billing (Asaas, Woovi with Pix Automático, Mercado Pago) with per-tenant routing and failover, plus bank reconciliation via Open Finance (Pluggy)
- •Creator Platform — Pix payments received via webhook become live stream alerts through WebSocket and Redis pub/sub; AI clip engine running locally (GPU Whisper transcription, Ollama LLM and vote-trained ranking)
- •Radar e-CAC (multi-tenant SaaS integrated with Serpro, Brazil's federal data service) and EMX (custom system for an accounting firm, with real payouts guarded by MFA and approval)
- •Stack: Next.js, Fastify, Prisma, PostgreSQL (Neon), Trigger.dev, Redis, Cloudflare R2, Railway and Vercel, with Vitest and Playwright in CI (GitHub Actions)
Senior Full Stack Developer → Tech Lead → CTO — Hydra Hub / Avantti Finance
Jun 2023 – Feb 2026 (Remote)Hands-on CTO of a payments platform (PSP, gateway, banking-as-a-service and white-label) serving ~1,000 merchants and 15 white-label partners, with BRL 1–6M/month in TPV. Technical owner of architecture, AWS infrastructure, security, production operations and a 10–15 person team. Senior Developer to CTO in 6 months.
- •Rebuilt the MVP from scratch: a makeshift Next.js "API" hosted on Vercel became a production-grade AWS platform with 10 ECS services (Node.js/TypeScript and Go) and 15 Lambda functions
- •Cut monthly AWS spend by ~87%, from BRL 15k to around BRL 2k
- •Designed the multi-tenant architecture powering 15 white-label operations on a single platform
- •Built payment flows with SQS-based asynchronous processing, idempotent webhooks, settlement and reconciliation on RDS (PostgreSQL)
- •Designed card tokenization that keeps the PAN out of integrators' reach, using PCI DSS as the reference
- •Implemented mTLS with an in-house CA (client certificate issuance with node-forge and CRL-based revocation on ALB), inside a private VPC with bastion hosts and secrets in Secrets Manager
- •Introduced CI/CD with GitHub Actions and AWS Copilot, automated testing, self-hosted Sentry (Kafka, Snuba) and a request-audit data lake with Kinesis Firehose, S3 and Athena
Full Stack Developer — LVSoft
Aug 2022 – Oct 2023 (Remote)- •Built a web system and the infrastructure connecting headquarters and branch offices, with data synchronization between locations
Full Stack Developer — FURIA Esports
Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 (Remote)Esports organization.
- •End-to-end system design and implementation: data modeling, Node.js APIs and React + TypeScript interfaces
- •Built from scratch and operated a multiplayer GTA roleplay game server in Lua, including gameplay systems, player data and server operations
Earlier Experience
Freelance Developer — GTA roleplay game servers · UIs and HUDs in Vue and React, gameplay systems and infrastructure for mid-to-large servers
2017 – 2020Systems Analyst — Carioca Rio Comércio e Atacado · ERP and point-of-sale (POS) rollout, inventory control
2016 – 2017IT Manager — BBEF Materiais de Construção · On-premises infrastructure for HQ and branches, SQL Server, ERP and Active Directory
2011 – 2015