Backend Engineer & Go Specialist

22 years building
systems that don't go down.

Go specialist, high-performance systems, and architectures that handle millions of requests. Pragmatism over hype. Results over complexity.

Andrey Andrade

22+

years of experience

23M

emails/day (Dinamize)

67

systems rewritten

12

years with Go

Success Stories

Real projects with measurable impact. Systems that handle millions and don't go down.

FEATURED 2020

WebContinental Shipping

We replaced Intelipost (market leader) in 67 days. Shipping calculation system for Brazil's 8th largest marketplace. Zero downtime on Black Friday.

50ms

response time

250k

shipping rules

$150

/month infra

100%

uptime

Go In-memory cache High performance
RESCUE 2012-2017

Dinamize Email

Email marketing platform rescued. Rewrote 67 systems in Go 0.90 (before v1.0!).

Sends/day 600k → 23M
Improvement 38x
Costs -67%
Go Custom MTA
HEALTHCARE 2006

HCPA - Bed Control

Bed management system for Porto Alegre Clinical Hospital. National healthcare reference.

Impact

Real-time visibility of all beds in the university hospital.

PHP MySQL
ANALYTICS 2018+

Mailbiz Analytics

Analytics and recommendation system for e-commerce. Real-time event processing.

Features

Impulse, recommendations, real-time dashboards.

Go Real-time
RETAIL 2015

Tevah Franchises

Management system for tailoring franchise network. Production, inventory, and sales control.

Scope

Complete integrated franchise network.

Go PostgreSQL
FINANCE 2004

Companhia Provincia

Complete system for real estate bank. Contract, client, broker, and financial management.

Volume

Hundreds of millions in managed contracts.

PHP SQL Server
PIONEER 2000-2004

PlugIn → UOLHost - Hosting Automation

Senior PHP & Perl Developer at PlugIn ISP (acquired by UOL in 2004). Built Brazil's first complete webhost automation: DNS, email, webserver, and databases. Created the first ISP e-commerce in Brazil.

24h→1m

provisioning time

99.93%

faster

1st

ISP e-commerce BR

Award

industry innovation

Perl PHP BIND Postfix Apache
SCALE 2005-2015

UOLHost - Web Analytics

Built analytics 10x more efficient than Google Analytics. Processed logs from thousands of sites daily. 10+ years running.

Efficiency 10x vs GA
Codebase 85K lines Perl
Perl Batch

Technical Expertise

Focus on backend, performance, and systems that need to work. No over-engineering, no unnecessary hype.

Go/Golang

12 years of experience. Since version 0.90, before 1.0. Concurrency, APIs, distributed systems.

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, LevelDB. Modeling, optimization, sharding when needed.

High Performance

Millions of requests/hour. Sub-100ms latency. Cache strategies. Zero downtime.

Main Stack

🐹

Go

🐘

PostgreSQL

🔴

Redis

🐳

Docker

🐧

Linux

☁️

AWS/DO

"I don't over-engineer. I prefer to ship something that works, measure what matters, and improve with real data."

Current Projects

Besides consulting, I develop my own products.

Have a system that
needs to stay up?

A legacy to rewrite? A Black Friday to survive? A complex integration to make work?

Let's Talk

Get in Touch

Remote work, flexible timezone. Clear async communication, frequent deliveries.

FAQ

What's your work model?

Remote, flexible timezone. Async communication, frequent deliveries. I can work solo or lead a team.

What do you charge?

Depends on the project. Senior Go remote: $60-100/hour or fixed-price with defined scope.

Do you take short projects?

Yes. Some of the best projects were 67 days. Tight deadlines force right decisions.

Do you work with other languages?

Go is the focus. But I have experience with PHP, Python, JavaScript. The language is a tool, what matters is solving the problem.