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Renan Spatin / Independent consulting

Juiz de Fora · gmt-3

Build · Architecture & process consulting

Strategic vision.
Precise execution.

I build systems, products and sites end to end, and fix the architecture and processes behind them. From the first decision to delivery in production.

Renan Spatin

Renan Winter Spatin

Software Engineer · Tech Lead · LL.B.
Stone Ionic capital under the glass grid of the British Museum Great Court
Engineering with foundationsBuilt for what comes next.
Experience at

Transfero · BTG Pactual · Thomson Reuters · Lumon Pay

Explore the work

Engineering in production, not in slides.

606
Pull requests shipped at Transfero (May 2023 → today)
4,700
Commits across 72 crypto-payments repositories
488
Production changes (RFCs) I executed
10+
Banking, payment and custody integrations delivered

How I can help.

Three tracks, all delivered to production - not a recommendations PDF.

What people I've worked with say

Recommendations from leaders, peers and people I led, published on LinkedIn.

“I've had the pleasure of working closely with Renan for several years, from our time at BTG Pactual through to Transfero Group, and I can confidently say he is an outstanding professional. Renan is extremely meticulous, methodical, and focused, with a strong commitment to delivering high-quality work. He's someone you can trust in critical situations and complex environments.”
Flavio Barci · Senior Software Engineer, BTG Pactual · Transfero · worked with Renan on the same teamView on LinkedIn
See all 9 recommendations

Outcomes that shipped.

Technical decisions with measurable impact on speed, cost, reliability and compliance - the four most representative.

If useful, leave a trace.

  1. 3×

    Integration delivery velocity

    Transfero · 2023 →

    Designed a Microkernel architecture for external-integration adapters and built a Visual Studio template that scaffolds the full library structure. Tripled delivery speed for new adapters and became the team standard.

    Trade-offAccepted more complexity in the core - an extensible kernel costs more to maintain - in exchange for linear adapter delivery. Worth it because integrations were the team's growth vector.

    • C# / .NET 7
    • Microkernel
    • Clean Architecture
    • Visual Studio
  2. Py → .NET

    Critical migration from Python to .NET 7

    Transfero · 2023 →

    Rewrote a critical integration from Python to .NET 7. Performance gains, higher reliability, and alignment with the company's core stack - fewer incidents on critical financial operations.

    Trade-offAccepted the cost of rewriting battle-tested code in exchange for consolidating the stack in a single language - smaller oncall surface, one CI/CD pipeline, unified observability.

    • Python
    • .NET 7
    • Performance
    • Reliability
  3. ↓ cost

    Centralized pricing service

    Transfero · 2023 →

    Built a centralized service that aggregates external pricing data and serves every internal application. Eliminated redundant calls, standardized the source of truth, and cut company-wide operational cost at scale.

    Trade-offAccepted a single point of failure in exchange for consistency and cost. Covered with aggressive Redis caching, clear SLOs, and graceful degradation when the upstream goes down.

    • C# / .NET
    • Redis
    • Azure
    • Distributed Cache
  4. SDK

    SDK + template that accelerated the payments team

    Transfero / BTG Pactual · 2022 →

    Built an SDK and a Visual Studio template that scaffold the base project for payment adapters. Other teams now focus only on the integration itself - time per adapter fell from weeks to days, with quality consistent by design.

    Trade-offSDKs demand semantic versioning discipline and an API surface that ages well. I took on that responsibility to remove cognitive load from consumer teams - they no longer need to know the plumbing.

    • C# / .NET
    • SDK design
    • Visual Studio
    • DX

Volunteer projects.

Outside company work, I serve communities and associations as a volunteer - it's where technology makes people's lives easier most directly.

  1. I

    Volunteer·Communications ministry · Web + Mobile + API · 2024

    Comunidade Católica Exaltai.

    comexaltai.com ↗
    comexaltai.com
    Comunidade Católica Exaltai - comexaltai.com

    A Catholic community I belong to, serving in the communications ministry. I built the platform as a volunteer: web, hybrid mobile app and custom backend. Daily liturgy, events, content editor and members area - technology in service of faith and community.

    • 01ASP.NET Core 9 backend in Clean Architecture with Entity Framework Core 9 over PostgreSQL 16 and JWT authentication.
    • 02React 19 + Vite web and hybrid mobile via Capacitor, sharing the same API - one code base, three surfaces.
    • 03TipTap editor and liturgical calendar wired so the editorial team publishes content without needing engineering.
  2. II

    Volunteer·Institutional site + admin · 2026

    AAPI-SJ.

    aapi.ong ↗
    aapi.ong
    AAPI-SJ - aapi.ong

    Associação de Apoio à Primeira Infância e Obras Sociais São José (Juiz de Fora, Brazil), a Catholic organization supporting expectant mothers, children and families. I built its institutional site and news admin as a volunteer, helping the team publish content independently and reach more people.

    • 01Institutional site built with Next.js 16 and React 19, explaining the organization's work and ways to support it.
    • 02News admin with authentication and PostgreSQL persistence via Drizzle ORM, so the team can publish independently.
    • 03Hosted on Railway, with the public site and admin area in one platform.

Track record.

7+ years of experience

Track record by company, technologies, and responsibilities. Full, printable version on the resume page.

  1. Current

    01 / 04

    Technical Lead · Software Engineer

    Transfero · Remote

    Technical leadership of a 3-engineer team, reporting directly to the CTO and Director. Architecture of new backends, team technical standards, engineering reviews and technical strategy alongside leadership. In 3 years: 606 PRs, ~4,700 commits across 72 repositories and 488 production changes - on/off-ramp, custody, compliance and trading. In 2026, architected the new Node/AWS stack (EKS/ECS, Terraform, Helm) and the cross-border settlement product, spec-first with AI agents.

    • C# / .NET
    • Distributed Systems
    • Azure
    • Kubernetes
    • Engineering Leadership
    • Architecture
  2. Past role

    02 / 04

    Senior Software Engineer · Contract

    Lumon Pay · United Kingdom (Remote)

    Heavy back-end projects for a UK-based fintech. Mission-critical C# / .NET services on Azure, with focus on reliability, financial integrations, and performance under real load.

    • C# / .NET
    • Azure
    • Backend
    • Distributed Systems
    • Fintech
  3. Past role

    03 / 04

    Software Engineering Specialist

    Transfero · Brazil

    Architected and built financial integration services at scale. Designed the Microkernel architecture that 3×'d adapter delivery velocity, migrated a critical integration from Python to .NET 7, and built a centralized pricing service that cut company-wide operational cost.

    • C# / .NET 7/8
    • Azure Service Bus
    • PostgreSQL
    • SQL Server
    • CosmosDB
    • Redis
    • Kubernetes
    • Microkernel
    • Clean Architecture
  4. Past role

    04 / 04

    Technical Lead · Offshore Onboarding

    BTG Pactual · Brazil

    Technical leadership of 5 devs + QA on the Offshore Onboarding squad at Latin America's largest investment bank. Pershing integration for automated document upload and workflow for offshore PJ account creation (US and Cayman).

    • C# / .NET 5/6
    • RabbitMQ
    • AWS SQS/SNS
    • DynamoDB
    • PostgreSQL
    • Kubernetes
    • Microservices

Articles

Articles

Software architecture, applied AI and what I learn taking products off paper and keeping them alive in production.

2026-10-05

The bucket is the database: a 430-line app I never had to maintain

media-viewer exists so I can watch and download, on my phone, the videos my agents render. It's one file, five dependencies, no database and no client-side JavaScript. This post walks through each decision and what I gave up to make it.

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