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Israel Sodano

Principal/Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech platforms

Big MountainETEC Lauro GomesSão Paulo, Brazil13 Years ExperiencePrincipal Level

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Brazil-based tech leader who helped build Bankly’s end-to-end Banking-as-a-Service platform—delivering a plug-and-play solution in 6 months and architecting for ~5k requests/second; Bankly later became the largest BaaS in Brazil. Also runs a closed, personal-capital private trading group focused on automating investment decisions with AI trading bots, but is currently prioritizing international career growth over entrepreneurship.

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Key Strengths

  • Led team to build end-to-end Banking-as-a-Service platform at Bankly
  • Designed scalable architecture handling ~5k requests per second
  • Delivered plug-and-play BaaS solution in 6 months
  • Strong client-needs alignment/customer-centric product thinking
  • Experience leading nationally impactful projects at large Brazilian companies
  • Structured approach to validating product viability via market and competitor analysis
  • Cost-conscious infrastructure strategy using Kubernetes/open-source and optimization trade-offs

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Experience

CO-FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL ENGINEERBig Mountain · May 2025 – Present
CO-FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL ENGINEERZapien · Jan 2022 – May 2025
CO-FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL ENGINEERTilid Consulting · Jan 2022 – May 2025
TECH LEAD · INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS PLATFORMXP Inc. · Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
TECH LEAD · TRADING & HFT SYSTEMSING · Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
TECH LEAD · CORE BANKING PLATFORMBankly (Banking as a Service) · Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Software EngineerItaú Unibanco · Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Software EngineerGrupo JCA · Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Software EngineerTata Consultancy Services · Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Software Engineering InternControl ID · Jan 2011 – Jan 2015internship

Languages

English

Certifications

Computer Science - ETEC Lauro Gomes

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Israel SodanoPrincipal/Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech platforms