Nicolas Van Klaveren

14 years as Software Engineer | Fullstack | IA | Microservices | Azure | Aws | K8S

São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

About

Software Architecture Specialist with 14 years of experience focused on high-throughput systems and technical complexity. My foundation was built at high-stakes global organizations such as AB InBev, BTG Pactual, and KPMG, where bridging business domain expertise with robust engineering patterns (DDD/CQRS) is a core requirement. Currently, at Lastlink, I drive the evolution toward AI-First engineering—a paradigm where programming languages are secondary to the orchestration of sub-agents and workflows. My priority is ensuring delivery predictability and strict deadlines through agentic oversight, while maintaining sustainable engineering KPIs (code quality and coverage), leveraging AI autonomy to scale the technical excellence required by large-scale operations.

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer at Lastlink
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    * AI-First Engineering & Agentic Flows: Pioneering an AI-First development culture, leveraging AI Agents within the workflow to drastically increase delivery velocity, automate complex refactoring, and rapidly master new technical stacks. * Architecting the integration with Yuno's payment orchestration platform, designing a resilient and scalable checkout flow to support high-volume digital creators. * Implementing payment strategies (failover, smart routing, and idempotency) using .NET Core to optimize authorization rates and ensure financial consistency across global transactions. * Developing decoupled communication between the payment gateway and internal ledgers using event-driven patterns (RabbitMQ) to ensure system reliability and auditability.

  • Senior Software Engineer at AB InBev
    Feb 2025 - Aug 2025 · 7 mos

    * Participated in engineering the global Internal Quality system, architecting the solution to process factory production events from 5 continents at a scale of over 160M+ events/day. * Implemented large-scale asynchronous communication using Azure Event Hub for massive data ingestion and Azure Service Bus for decoupled communication between microservices. * Developed an event sourcing solution using Postgres and the Partman extension, enabling lock-free partitioning and purging of historical data to ensure 24/7 platform availability.

  • Senior Software Developer at Icatu Seguros
    Apr 2022 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    * Designed the new microservices architecture (.NET 8) for the complex Private Pension domain, using Event Storming to map business flows and applying the CQRS pattern to ensure proposal consistency. * Implemented automated integration tests within the CI/CD pipeline (Azure DevOps) using Test Containers, achieving 95% test coverage for critical business scenarios. * Led the adoption of Micro Frontends (Module Federation) and advanced RxJs state management patterns in Angular, serving as the primary technical reference for the team.

  • Senior Software Developer at BTG Pactual
    Jun 2021 - Apr 2022 · 11 mos

    * Engineered a high-availability microservice in Golang (Gin/GORM) to block real-time Pix transactions for clients with judicial restrictions, mitigating the bank's financial and legal risk with low-latency processing * Engineered an AWS Spark pipeline to process 1 million B3 (stock exchange) transactions per hour, batch-loading the data into S3 for consumption by the Big Data team. * Developed critical features for the banking compliance system (using .NET and Angular 13), optimizing the compliance team's workflow with enhanced authentication, data visualization, and verification checks. * Led the automation of deployment infrastructure (CI/CD with Azure DevOps) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS with Helm Charts), and implemented serverless solutions (AWS Lambda/SQS), ensuring continuous delivery and system reliability.

  • Technical Lead at Meta
    Mar 2018 - Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    * As Tech Lead, led the technical design of a "Google Drive-style" document management system for prosecutors' offices, serving as a technical reference and mentor for 9 developers on architectural decisions. * Engineered the system's distributed architecture using Micro Frontends (React/Redux) for a modular UI and GraphQL Federation (Apollo) to orchestrate .NET Microservices, ensuring secure storage of sensitive legal data with MinIO. * Structured the complete CI/CD pipeline (Azure DevOps) with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm Charts, automating the solution's deployment and ensuring continuous delivery. * Developed and scaled a product catalog system (.NET Core 3.1, Angular 9) integrated with the Siscomex government system, successfully supporting high-volume clients like Apple and Toyota (millions of products and thousands of invoices/month). * Implemented BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) to ensure accurate integration with client requirements, focusing on complex tax invoicing and billing modules. Utilized RabbitMQ to ensure asynchronous, decoupled communication between the catalog and invoicing modules, reliably supporting high transaction volumes.