My nickname is bovino and my name is Marcelo Bezerra (but people have usually and consistently called me by my nickname in the last 20 years or so). I am a software engineer who started programming in 2002, and in the last years i focused my career on backend development and API-related stuff, including API design, API Gateways, Microservices architecture and system integrations.

I am a winner of the Kong 2022 Hackaton (https://twitter.com/thekonginc/status/1577282942094790656), i am a member of the Kong Champions program (https://konghq.com/kong-champions) and i had the honor to speak in conferences like Kong HQ "Destination:Scale" (https://konghq.com/events/destination-scale) and TDC - The Developers Conference (https://thedevconf.com/). Well yes, i enjoy the topics "API" and "API Gateway" :-D

• IDE: VSCODE, IntelliJ, GoLand, Notepad++, Eclipse, Spring Tools
• Build and artifacts repository: Gradle, Maven, NPM, Lua Rocks, GitLabCI, Jenkins, Nexus, Artifact
• Containers: Podman, Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Compose Generator, Docker Hub
• Load test: JMeter, K6, LoadMill
• Contract testing: Pact, Pact Broker, Spring Cloud contract
• API: Postman, curl, Insomnia, Stoplight, OpenAPI Generator (https://openapi-generator.tech/), OpenAPI tools (https://openapi.tools/), Swagger Editor
• Kafka: Kafka Drop, Offset Explorer / Kafka Tool, Kaf, Spectre Kafka GUI
• Metrics, logging and monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Log4J, SLF4J
• Database: DBeaver, Oracle SQL Explorer, SQL Server Studio, PgAdmin, MongoDB Compass, MySQL Workbench
• Caching: Rebrow, RedisInsight
• Profiling and debug: JProfiler, Wireshark, Java Visual VM
• Docs and communications: Confluence, JIRA, Slack, MS Teams, Google Meet, Google Docs, Zoom, Miro
• OS: Linux Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Windows 10

• GRADUATION: During my graduation i studied at UnB (University of Brasilia) and UniEuro (Brazil)
• POST GRADUATION: I have a post graduation at IGTI (Brazil), where i studied BigData and topics related to data engineering

• API design (specially using the specs OpenAPI and Async API)
• API gateways (specially Kong API Gateway)
• Open innovation (specially with public APIs involved)
• Distributed architectures (including but not limited to microservices)
• Data streaming (specially using Apache Kafka and Kafka Connectors)
• Event-driven architecture
• Automated testing and quality assurance for APIs
• API governance
• APIOps (specially when combined with an API-First approach)

• https://github.com/bovino/kong-gateway-introducao
• https://github.com/bovino/kong-template-with-docker
• https://github.com/bovino/docker-compose-generator
• https://github.com/bovino/cidprojetoaplicado
• https://github.com/bovino/kotlin_sboot233_tdc_live_coding
• (under construction, i will have a few others in this list soon....)

• Winner of Kong 2022 Hackaton with the award "Top Overall Contribution" (https://konghq.com/conferences/kong-summit/hackathon and https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6981765066433916928/ and https://twitter.com/thekonginc/status/1577282942094790656)
• Member of Kong Champions program
• Java 8 Oracle Certified Associate
• SCEA - Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for JEE 5 (Part 1/3)
• Macromedia Certified ColdFusion Developer
• Former member of Team Macromedia for ColdFusion (later renamed for Adobe Community Experts)
• Speaker at KongHQ "Destination:Scale" in 2021 with a session named "MAKE IT EASY: AUTOMATING TESTS AND DEPLOYMENT OF CUSTOM PLUGINS"
• Speaker at TDC 2020, at the Kotlin Track with a session named "Using SpringBoot 2.3.0 with Kotlin and Gradle"
• Speaker at TDC 2021, at the JavaScript and NodeJS Track with a session named "Writing consumer driven contract tests in Pact for an API client in NodeJS"
• Speaker at TDC 2022, at the JavaScript and NodeJS Track with a session named "Evaluating and improving performance of APIs written in NodeJS"

bezerra.mj@gmail.com