Nilson Valim
Software Engineer at PicPay
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolNilson Valim is a results-driven software engineer with a decade of experience delivering scalable payment and financial services solutions across startups and large enterprises in Brazil. He is currently a Software Engineer at PicPay, where he continues to shape end-to-end payments since 2025, after stints at Meta, Inter, Grupo Boticário, M4U/Bemobi, PagSeguro PagBank, Luizalabs, and Zup Innovation. His background spans Java and Kotlin, Spring, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and databases (MySQL, DynamoDB), with a track record building core payment gateways, event-driven architectures, and APIs that support PIX, online insurance quotes, and cross-system integrations. He has hands-on experience with fraud detection ML, feature engineering, and model integration in transactional systems, plus delivering regulatory-aligned integrations (Bacen, SUSEP). Nilson holds a Bachelor's in Information Systems from Faculdade Politécnica de Uberlândia and is based in Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is known for prioritizing code quality, simplicity, and agile delivery, capable of turning complex requirements into reliable, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Sistemas de Informação, Bachelor's Degree, Sistemas de Informação at Faculdade Politécnica de Uberlândia
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Github contributions (4)
valimkings/account-manager
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
valimkings/donus-code-challenge
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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