Thiago Finch

Thiago
Finch

Senior Software Engineer at Nubank, building real-time payment infrastructure and the interfaces that make complex financial data feel simple.

6+
Years of professional experience
14M
Users on systems I maintain
2
Open source libraries published
01

Why I Rewrote Our Microfrontend Shell in TanStack Start

After two years of fighting Webpack Module Federation at Nubank, my team migrated our shell application to TanStack Start. Here's what we learned, what broke, and why we're not looking back.

TanStackMicrofrontendsArchitectureReact
Mar 2026
02

The Invisible Cost of Over-Abstracting React State

On a recent refactor at Nubank, we found 40% of our Zustand stores could be replaced by URL state and server data. The performance wins were obvious. The architectural clarity was the real prize.

ReactState ManagementPerformanceArchitecture
Feb 2026
03

Pix, WebSockets, and the Architecture of Real-Time Money

Building payment dashboards that update in real time sounds straightforward. It isn't. Here's the full story of Stone's merchant reconciliation tool: from polling hell to a WebSocket-first architecture processing 50k events per minute.

WebSocketsFintechNode.jsArchitecture
Jan 2026