Juliano Pantoni

Senior Software Engineer

Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
juliano@pantoni.dev • https://linkedin.com/in/julianopantonifilho

About

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years designing, scaling, and maintaining web platforms across fintech, open finance, loyalty, and SaaS — serving millions of users in high-availability architectures. Proven track record of driving measurable impact: $120k in annual AWS savings, 4,000+ franchise stores onboarded, and 30% checkout completion improvements. Strong expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, React, Vue.js, and PHP, with deep experience in performance optimization, legacy modernization, and regulated financial systems. Fluent in English, experienced across fully distributed international teams.

Experience

  • USA - Remote
    Senior Software Engineer

    Summary:

    • Global payment platform client — analytics & data validation.

    Responsibilities:

    • Validating analytics pipelines, user flows, and BigQuery datasets across 50+ tables processing 100k+ records daily, ensuring accurate and trustworthy metrics for executive-level reporting.
    • Using SQL for validation queries and data analysis, with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js to analyze SDK behavior and build internal visualizations.
    • Implemented AI-assisted tooling to automate knowledge aggregation and streamline investigation workflows, reducing manual analysis overhead.
    • Collaborating with data science and data engineering teams to identify inconsistencies between source systems and reported metrics that were silently skewing analytics at scale.

    Achievements:

    • Surfaced recurring data inconsistencies across 50+ BigQuery datasets silently skewing executive-level analytics — now tracked, documented, and actively resolved with data engineering.
    • Shipped an AI-assisted investigation tooling prototype adopted by the team within the first sprint, cutting manual knowledge-aggregation time significantly.
    • TypeScript
    • React
    • Next.js
    • JavaScript
    • BigQuery
    • AWS
    • GCP
  • UK - Remote
    Senior Software Engineer

    Summary:

    • Costa Coffee (loyalty platform) · British Telecom (payment UI) · Full-stack & platform engineering.

    Responsibilities:

    • Led React.js architecture and development for Costa Coffee's global loyalty ecosystem, maintaining mission-critical services supporting millions of daily interactions across multiple regions — zero downtime during ownership transition.
    • Drove AWS infrastructure optimization generating ~$120k in annual savings through service right-sizing, log retention tuning, and architectural improvements managed via CloudFormation.
    • Delivered a React-based analytics platform adopted by 4,000+ franchise stores for sales analysis and operational efficiency, saving 8+ hours per week of manual reporting.
    • Introduced CloudWatch observability upgrades, cutting mean time to incident detection from hours to minutes and reducing customer-impacting production incidents.
    • Upgraded British Telecom's payment UI using React + Jotai, expanding card compatibility and improving customer checkout completion rates by 30%.
    • Architected a C#/.NET platform with custom data-conversion workflows enabling zero-downtime migration, improving throughput by 40%+.
    • Refactored PHP services eliminating costly routines and isolating subsystems, raising execution efficiency 25–30%; unified separate React/TypeScript applications into the core product, lowering integration effort by ~20%.
    • Reduced request latency 25–35% through SQL path optimization and targeted caching layers; improved deployment reliability ~30% via CI/CD sequencing and environment parity revisions.
    • Adopted LLM-assisted testing and debugging workflows, shortening iteration cycles by 15–25%.
    • Mentored engineers on reusable frontend patterns, simplifying state flows and raising overall delivery quality across the team.

    Achievements:

    • Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by ~$120,000 per year through log retention adjustments, service right-sizing, and removal of unnecessary resources.
    • Delivered analytics platform adopted by 4,000+ franchise stores, saving 8+ hours/week of manual reporting.
    • Improved BT checkout completion rates by 30% through payment UI upgrade with React + Jotai.
    • Cut mean time to incident detection from hours to minutes with CloudWatch observability overhaul.
    • Achieved 40%+ throughput improvement via C#/.NET zero-downtime migration platform.
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Node
    • AWS
    • CloudWatch
    • Lambda
    • CloudFormation
    • Playwright
    • PHP
    • C#/.NET
    • PostgreSQL
  • Spain - Remote
    Software Engineer

    Summary:

    • Developed frontend applications for a large-scale Open Finance platform operating across multiple countries.

    Responsibilities:

    • Contributed to a JavaScript SDK used by clients to access Brazilian Open Finance APIs, integrated with Central Bank regulated systems.
    • Built interfaces using Vue.js, Nuxt, and TypeScript, focused on financial data visualization and user workflows.
    • Worked closely with backend, product, and compliance teams in a regulated fintech environment.
    • Improved frontend stability and release reliability through testing and continuous integration practices.
    • Vue.js
    • Nuxt.js
    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript
    • Cypress
  • Brazil - Remote
    Software Engineer

    Summary:

    • Allocated at ChiroTouch (US healthcare SaaS) — full-stack feature delivery, performance optimization, and test coverage initiative.

    Responsibilities:

    • Built reusable Lit web components and refactored Redux state flows, reducing UI complexity by ~20%.
    • Implemented event-driven Node.js microservices (Express, Sequelize, Kafka), increasing message throughput by 15–25%.
    • Led a platform-wide performance initiative: isolated bottlenecks, optimized SQL, and reduced unnecessary data flows — raising performance by ~15% in high-usage modules.
    • Grew structured test coverage from ~30% to ~80%, which drove a ~35% reduction in production incidents.
    • Mentored 2 interns and coordinated end-to-end system evaluations with the Engineering Manager.

    Achievements:

    • Grew test coverage from ~30% to ~80%, reducing production incidents by ~35%.
    • Raised performance by ~15% in high-usage modules through profiling, SQL optimization, and data flow reduction.
    • Node
    • JavaScript
    • TypeScript
    • Jest
    • JMeter
    • Express
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
  • Brazil - On site
    Software Engineer

    Summary:

    • Worked on a small SaaS product with a focus on delivering complete features.

    Responsibilities:

    • Built frontend and backend capabilities for end users and administrative dashboards.
    • Participated in basic technical decisions related to code structure and data organization.
    • Fixed production issues and supported the platform's gradual evolution.
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
    • PHP Unit
    • Laravel
    • MySQL
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • Git
  • Brazil - On site
    Junior Software Engineer

    Summary:

    • Developed and maintained web applications focused on digital marketing and data analytics.

    Responsibilities:

    • Implemented frontend and backend features for internal dashboards and client-facing tools.
    • Integrated services for campaign data collection and processing.
    • Fixed bugs, delivered small performance improvements, and supported production environments.
    • Collaborated with designers and analysts to deliver features incrementally.
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
    • PHP Unit
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • MySQL
    • Git
    Software Engineer Intern

    Summary:

    • Supported web application development, mainly on frontend features and simple backend adjustments.

    Responsibilities:

    • Implemented visual improvements and functional fixes under supervision.
    • Participated in code reviews and learned version control best practices.
    • Supported maintenance tasks and basic testing.
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
    • PHP Unit
    • Git

Projects

  • Real-Time Logistics Map Platform

    TypeScript real-time map platform for a last-mile delivery SaaS (1,000+ customers), handling live vehicle tracking, dynamic route visualization, and multi-stop route optimization across a live dispatch map.

    • Integrated Google Maps API, MapTiler, and GraphHopper routing engine for real-time markers, turn-by-turn vehicle routes, and geofencing
    • Built for high-frequency update throughput with sub-second latency for live position streaming and route recalculation
    • Pushed TypeScript as the stack standard; ran hands-on onboarding sessions for the engineering team
    • Mentored developers on geospatial concepts, real-time data flows, and frontend architecture
    • TypeScript
    • React
    • Node
    • Socket.io
    • Google Maps API
    • MapTiler
    • GraphHopper
    • PostgreSQL
  • Loyalty Platform Observability Overhaul

    Designed and implemented a CloudWatch alerting system for Costa Coffee's loyalty middleware, shifting incident detection from reactive (hours) to proactive (minutes) and protecting millions of daily user sessions.

    • CloudWatch custom metrics, alarms, and dashboards via CloudFormation
    • Reduced mean time to detection from hours to minutes
    • Zero customer-impacting incidents missed post-rollout
    • AWS
    • CloudFormation
    • TypeScript
    • React
    • Node
    • PostgreSQL
  • Open Finance JavaScript SDK

    Built a JavaScript SDK enabling third-party integration with Brazilian Open Finance APIs regulated by the Central Bank, used across Latin America and Europe under strict compliance requirements.

    • Collaborated with backend, product, and compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment
    • Deployed across Latin America and Europe in a regulated fintech environment
    • End-to-end tested with Cypress and Percy
    • JavaScript
    • TypeScript
    • Vue.js
    • Nuxt.js
    • Node
    • Cypress
    • Percy
  • Platform Performance Initiative

    Led a company-wide effort at ChiroTouch to profile, benchmark, and optimize the highest-traffic modules of the healthcare SaaS platform.

    • ~15% performance improvement across high-usage modules
    • Test coverage scaled from ~30% to ~80%
    • ~35% reduction in production incidents
    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript
    • Node
    • Jest
    • JMeter
    • Playwright
    • Cypress
    • PostgreSQL

Education

    FIAP

    MBA, CyberSecurity & DevSecOps

    UNIP

    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Certificates

    TOEFL ITP®

    Mastertest Global — Issued Jul 2017 · Expired Jul 2019

Skills

Frontend

  • React
  • Vue.js
  • Nuxt.js
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Tailwind CSS

Backend

  • Node
  • NestJS
  • Express
  • PHP
  • Python
  • C#/.NET
  • Laravel
  • Socket.io

Data & Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • DynamoDB
  • BigQuery
  • Elasticsearch

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • CloudFormation
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • CircleCI
  • RabbitMQ

Testing

  • Jest
  • Vitest
  • Cypress
  • Percy
  • Playwright
  • JMeter

Tools & Integrations

  • Google Maps API
  • MapTiler
  • GraphHopper
  • Braze
  • Talon.One
  • Google Analytics
  • Meta Analytics

AI & LLMs

  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • Prompt Engineering