Tech Lead & Senior Software Engineer / Solutions Architect
20+ years of experience building high-scale distributed systems, legacy modernization, and leading high-performance engineering teams.
- Back-end & Architecture: Specialized in modular monoliths, event-driven microservices, systems resilience (circuit breakers, exponential backoff, rate limiting), and data modeling (SQL/NoSQL).
- Agile Leadership: Pragmatic Tech Lead focusing on delivery metrics (Lead Time, Cycle Time, Throughput), code reviews, developer mentorship, and IDPs.
- Observability & QA: Deep experience implementing telemetry, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, APM), and TDD patterns in both front and backend.
- AI & Automation: Building Generative AI agents, RAG architectures, and custom workflows using Python (LangChain/FastAPI) and N8N.
- Languages: Ruby, Go (Golang), TypeScript/JavaScript, C# (.NET), Java, Python.
- Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, NestJS, Express, Angular, React, Spring Boot, FastAPI.
- Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform (IaC), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
- Messaging & Data: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch.
- shared-broker - A high-performance Ruby library designed to simplify asynchronous event-driven messaging and telemetry (observability) in Rails-based microservices.
- vindi-rails - The core Ruby SDK integration for the Vindi recurring payments API, featuring built-in rate-limiting handling and auto-retry backoff mechanisms.
- [vindi-rails-integrations] (https://github.com/wesleyskap/vindi-rails-integrations) - Rails integration extension for Vindi, providing automated ActiveRecord model synchronization, webhook controllers, background jobs, and validation Rake tasks.
- vindi-rails-engines - Mounting engine extension providing frontend checkouts, views, and credit card tokenization via Stimulus JS.
- orkai-observability - An ultra-fast, reflection-free structured JSON Logger and a concurrent thread-safe LIFO Tracer built from scratch in Go.
- orkai-runiq - A dependency-free background task processor for Go, offering modular telemetry integrations.
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wesleyskap
- ✉️ Email: wesleyskap@gmail.com
- 💬 Ask me about: Systems architecture, OpenTelemetry, Ruby Gems, Go performance, or anything about agile engineering.