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."

AI RESEARCH

The Models Race

Tracking AI evolution through Hacker News discussions. Data from 4.78M items analyzed.

2025 Mention Growth

Claude
+482%
Gemini
+218%
Llama
+127%
GPT
+65%
DeepSeek
NEW

Source: Hacker News discussions Jan-Dec 2025

AI & LLM Integration

Building production systems with Claude, GPT, and open-source models. RAG pipelines, embeddings, and real-time inference.

4.78M

items analyzed

176K

unique users

LLM APIs RAG Embeddings Data Analysis

Full Research

Hacker News Universe 2025

Interactive infographic with complete analysis

WRITING

Articles & Insights

Thoughts on technology, AI, and the future of software development.

AI EN

Forcing AI Honesty Through Iteration

Ralph Wiggum: a tool that forces AI to actually complete tasks by using binary verification loops.

Read more →
AI PT

Forçando a IA a Ser Honesta

Ralph Wiggum: ferramenta que força a IA a realmente completar tarefas usando loops de verificação binária.

Ler mais →
AI EN

The Future Has No Screen

How voice interfaces are replacing visual UIs, and why I already use this daily in my terminal workflow.

Read more →
AI PT

O Futuro Não Tem Tela

Como interfaces de voz estão substituindo UIs visuais, e por que já uso isso diariamente no terminal.

Ler mais →
AI 2025

The AI Pushback Problem

When AI assistants refuse to help and the growing skepticism around AI tools in development.

Read more →
AI 2025

Why AI Gave Me the Wrong Answer

The premature optimization trap in AI assistants and how to get better results.

Read more →
TECH 2025

Stack Overflow Has Become a Museum

The decline of Stack Overflow and what it means for developer communities.

Read more →
HIRING 2025

The Great Exclusion: AI Recruitment

How AI-powered hiring is filtering out qualified candidates and what we can do about it.

Read more →
COMMUNITY 2025

TabNews 2025 Retrospective

A look back at the Brazilian tech community platform and its evolution.

Read more →
INFOGRAPHIC 2025

DEV.TO 2025 Analysis

Visual analysis of 1,600 articles. AI dominates with 33% of all content.

Explore data →
DATA 2026

E-Commerce Intelligence Brasil — 500 Cidades

Digital presence map of 7.2M businesses across 500 Brazilian cities. Websites, phones, social media, and brands analyzed from Overture Maps data.

Explore dashboard →

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.