# Catarina Bombaça > Software Engineer @ Sedex Location: London, England, United Kingdom Profile: https://flows.cv/catarina Passionate software engineer experienced in Kotlin and Go, with expertise in complex, regulated domains including fintech and supply chain. Successfully delivered critical features across payment products and supply chain systems, prioritising security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability. I take full ownership of the systems I build and favour pragmatic solutions over premature complexity. Skilled in building decoupled and testable systems using hexagonal architecture and microservices, with a product-oriented mindset and deep understanding of DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Test-Driven Development. Tech skills: Go, Kotlin, Http4k, SQL, Amazon SQS, Kafka, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, React.js, Typescript, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Tilt ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Sedex Jan 2023 – Present | London, England, United Kingdom - Successfully decommissioned a legacy supply chain system, enabling a faster and reliable platform for 115k members. - Architected and launched improved data downloads, reducing download times from several minutes to under 3 seconds globally, significantly improving user experience for supply chain reporting. - Developed a proof of concept for extended supply chain mapping beyond tier 3 suppliers, enabling deeper visibility into complex global supply networks. - Cleaned up monitoring alerts, significantly reducing alert volume, improving on-call experience and incident response times. - Led learning initiatives such as lightning talks and book club. ### Software Engineer @ Teya Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom Within the dev team I have been involved in all the stages of software development lifecycle: - Implemented and maintained an internal payments system, facilitating seamless settlements for +20,000 merchants across Europe daily. - Successfully integrated with 3 different payment providers, enabling payments in 14 currencies and across various payment rails. - Implementing and launching one of the key products: a wallet and debit card proposition that allows merchants to be settled into a virtual account - Promoting highly iterative development, continually delivering increasing amounts of functionality with every release - Practised test-driven development, wrote acceptance and integration tests and pair programming - Helped with the product architecture and hiring. Outside my team, I have been involved in initiatives to shape the business processes and culture: - Drove a culture of continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) by implementing comprehensive dashboards to measure DORA metrics across the organisation. - Helped with employee onboarding. - Established a strong learning culture through initiatives such as lightning talks, learning days, tech blogs, and company-wide presentations. ### Developer @ SHIFT Management Consulting Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Lisbon, Portugal Integrating the Business Applications Team and with a focus in Power Apps development, my mission at SHIFT is to help companies to achieve more through cloud business-ready solutions. Main responsibilities and achievements: - Developing Power Platform solutions mostly for Middle East clients - Providing training in Power Apps (so far, 4+ countries and 150+ participants) - Requirements gathering and analysis Technologies: Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint Online, Dataverse, Office 365 ### Analyst @ SHIFT Management Consulting Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 - Implementing cloud business-ready solutions using Office 365 tools - Requirement gathering and analysis - MS Project, Planner ### Research Scientist @ INESC-MN Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Lisbon, Portugal Developed a microchip for monitorization of grape maturation using microfluidics technology. - Multidisciplinary project outside my core background (from biology to physics and electronics); - Experience as an assistant teacher at IST in Biological Engineering classes (4th year students); - Mentored 3 students during their master thesis ### Paper Team Coordinator @ Board of European Students of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Supervised the scientific team (4 members) for the paper “A students' perspective on entrepreneurship and innovation in European STEM Education”, SEFI Copenhagen 2018 conference. ### Human Resources Coordinator @ BEST Lisbon Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Lisboa e Região, Portugal Main responsabilities were to manage the recruitment and integration process, as well providing training and regulating membership to 50+ members. ### Lisbon Cultural Exchange Coordinator @ BEST Lisbon Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Lisboa e Região, Portugal Gathered and supervised the international team (10+ members) in charge of the event planning, including the preparation of funding applications and establishment of partnerships. ### Private Tutor @ OnMind Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Lisboa e Região, Portugal Facilitated the students' skills acquirement in chemistry and biology. Prepared for national exams for college entrance. Students under my tutoring improved their grades and placed on the top 10% within their class. ### Hostess @ Hospedeiras De Portugal, SIG Portugal, ToxInn & Clara Cunha Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Lisbon Area, Portugal Main functions included promoting 10+ different brand products, helping and escorting VIP speakers at conferences and participating in more than 3 private events such as company parties and wine tasting events. ## Education ### Master of Science (MSc) in Biotechnology Instituto Superior Técnico ### Full-Stack Web Development Ironhack ### Summer School "Hands-on Micro Systems" in Microfabrication & Sensors Hochschule Kaiserslautern ### Erasmus+ Exchange Program in Chemistry Charles University ### Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biochemsitry Universidade Nova de Lisboa ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/catarina-bombaca --- Source: https://flows.cv/catarina JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/catarina/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05