I don't just ship projects.
I share the trade-offs, lessons, and outcomes behind the work.
A portfolio built around case studies and technical writing — not screenshots.
Case · Backend Engineer Event Hub API Evolved an event ticketing API into a production-ready platform with role-based security, overbooking protection, cached event listings, containerized infrastructure, and post-purchase confirmation events. Case · Full-stack Engineer Distributed Fraud Review Pipeline Currently building a distributed fraud-review pipeline, delivering a functional POC with asynchronous processing, concurrent consumers, persistence, and a baseline resilience model.
I'm Larissa Falcão, senior software engineer focused on building systems that move real business metrics.
Every major decision is documented—because great engineers don't just build things, they explain why.
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View all Kafka Consumer Groups in Production: Lag, Rebalancing, and the Mistakes That Hurt Most Kafka problems in production are not Kafka problems. They are consumer problems nobody thought about at design time. Read article useEffect and the dependency array: why this hook confuses everyone Why infinite loops, stale UI, and ESLint dependency warnings often trace back to useEffect—and how to think about the dependency array as synchronization, not triggers. Read article
Problems I Enjoy Solving
How to scale systems without scaling complexity · When to choose consistency over availability · Making legacy codebases maintainable · Designing resilient event-driven flows · Improving observability before failures become incidents · Turning AI capabilities into reliable product infrastructure
Let's Work Together
If you're building something that needs to scale, survive production, or integrate AI without cutting corners — I'd like to hear about it.