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Micael Santana — founder and senior software engineer.

Paradox Technology is founder-led. The person who runs discovery and architecture remains accountable for the technical outcome instead of handing the project off to an unknown delivery team after the sale.

Experience built in production systems

Micael has 12+ years in software engineering, working across enterprise Java, Spring Boot, APIs, data platforms, cloud, CI/CD, front-end systems, integrations, and applied AI.

His career includes professional experience connected to environments such as BNDES, SAP, Mercedes-Benz AG, T-Systems, QAT Global, Bagy, Grupo Dataclick, and CTIS Tecnologia. These organizations represent career history and are not presented as Paradox Technology clients.

How that shows up in Paradox projects

The emphasis is on production ownership: explicit failure modes, observable systems, repeatable deployment, source-code ownership, practical documentation, and architecture another team can maintain.

Technology choices are made around the client's system and constraints rather than a fixed agency stack.

Twelve years in systems other people depend on

  • Java 8/11/17/21, Spring Boot/MVC, JPA/Hibernate
  • PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Kafka, REST and SOAP
  • AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD
  • Angular, React/Vue experience, PHP/Laravel and Node.js
  • RAG, LLM integration, evaluation, guardrails and observability
  • Architecture, modernization, incident response and technical leadership

How the work is run

Technical coordination remains with the founder. Larger projects can add specialists for a specific technology, but ownership does not disappear behind a sales layer.

In practical terms, the person who understands the architecture during discovery is still accountable when the system has to change or fails months later.

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