Alba Catarina Navarro

Overview

8 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Trade Republic, where I work on the real-time team. Led the migration of 39 services to WebSockets. Wrote the WebSockets service that now handles 74 million requests a day. I mentor students through university programmes.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Feb 2025 - Present
   Trade Republic · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 670ms to 173ms.
   • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
   Booking.com · 2 yr · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 36 a week to 4.
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Software Engineer

   Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
   Trade Republic · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 501ms to 112ms.
4. Software Engineer

   Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
   Capgemini · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
   • Wrote the Erlang/OTP service that now handles 81 million requests a day.
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 32% in two quarters.

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Education

1. University of Amsterdam

   BSc, Mathematics
   2015 - 2018