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Hi, I’m
Felipe Cooper
Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer
Go · gRPC · Kafka · Kubernetes — Cork, Ireland
I’m a backend engineer with 7+ years of experience, specializing in Go and highly scalable distributed systems. Today I build institutional crypto custody infrastructure at Anchorage Digital — blockchain integrations, transaction processing, and the reliability and observability work that keeps digital assets safe.
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/ Experience
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Jun 2025 — Present
Golang Engineer · Anchorage Digital
Institutional crypto custody infrastructure: blockchain integrations, digital asset lifecycle management, and transaction processing for one of the most security-critical platforms in the industry.
- Build and operate gRPC services for blockchain integrations, including Layer 2 networks, running on Kubernetes on GCP.
- Work on security-, reliability-, and observability-first distributed systems, with CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins and BuildKit.
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2022 — 2025
Golang Engineer · Mercado Livre
Backend engineering on high-traffic services for Latin America’s largest e-commerce and fintech ecosystem.
- Designed, built, and operated high-scale distributed Go services serving millions of requests.
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2019 — 2022
Backend Engineer · Softplan
Backend services and integrations built on event-driven architecture and AWS Lambda.
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2017 — 2019
Backend Developer · Embracon
Backend development for financial products, where I started building the foundations in APIs and integrations.
/ Selected work
log-horizon
Log storage and retrieval service in Go
A gRPC service for storing, querying, and exporting logs at scale — with automatic compression for large payloads, time-range queries, and chunked streaming for large result sets. Ships with hlog, a companion Go SDK.
- Layered architecture with strict app / business / foundation boundaries
- gzip compression and streaming export keep storage and transfer efficient
Go gRPC Protocol Buffers MongoDB
johnfercher/maroto ★ 2.7k
A popular Go library for PDF generation. Merged fixes around concurrency correctness and pagination layout.
/ Skills
Core
Go Distributed systems High-scale backends Reliability & performance
Architecture & messaging
Event-driven architecture Microservices gRPC Kafka Pub/Sub
Fintech & crypto
Blockchain integrations Crypto custody Transaction processing Layer 2
Platform & observability
Kubernetes GCP AWS Lambda OpenTelemetry CI/CD
/ Contact
The best way to reach me is on LinkedIn. I’m always happy to talk about Go, distributed systems, fintech and crypto infrastructure, and interesting problems.