São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Hands-on Engineering Leader and AI-native builder with 20+ years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native platforms, GenAI solutions, and global engineering teams. I specialize in turning complex ideas into scalable products, combining strong technical leadership with a deep understanding of product, business strategy, and customer impact. Throughout my career, I’ve led distributed teams across the US, LATAM, and Europe, modernizing platforms, scaling engineering organizations, and delivering high-impact solutions across multiple industries. Key highlights: • Built and scaled engineering teams from 8 to 50+ engineers • Delivered 40+ AI and cloud-native projects using modern architectures • Led product strategy in multicultural environments, collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Business teams • Trained 10+ engineering teams to use AI for coding, and productivity (XP pairing with AI, specs-driven development) I’m particularly known for bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders, aligning engineering execution with business goals, and creating environments where talented engineers can perform at their best. Core Skills & Stack: Global Leadership, Remote Teams, Product Strategy, Cloud-Native Architecture, GenAI, LLM Systems, Microservices, AWS, API Design, Distributed Systems Technologies: AWS, Azure, GCP, Lambda, Docker, Kubernetes, Node.js, PHP/Laravel, Python, Go, React, Angular, Vue, OpenAI, Bedrock, Elastic Search, MongoDB, MySQL, CI/CD, N8N, and modern AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code. Industries: Consulting, Fintech, E-commerce, Adtech, Legaltech, Crypto/Web3, Health, HR, Banking, Accounting, Construction, IoT, Saa%
Scalable Growth: Spearheaded the company’s transformation, scaled operational capacity, expanded service offerings, and drove organizational growth. Client Success: Delivered transformative AWS solutions for diverse industries, led successful AI implementations(up to 80% efficiency improvement in some cases), and managed large-scale application migration and modernization projects to cloud-native architectures. Leadership & Strategy: Led 100% remote, cross-functional, international teams across the US, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina, aligning engineering execution with strategic business goals to ensure high-impact results. Technical Expertise: Designed and implemented robust AWS cloud services to optimize scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency. Led the integration of Generative AI solutions into client applications, enhancing automation, user engagement, and personalization. Directed the deployment of custom GenAI models and integrated AI-driven analytics to enable smarter decision-making and operational efficiencies. Team Building: Built high-performing teams by recruiting, mentoring, and retaining top engineering talent. Fostered a collaborative, learning-oriented culture and encouraged AWS certifications and professional development. Operational Excellence: Improved delivery efficiency by streamlining processes and optimizing resource allocation, achieving significant reductions in project timelines while ensuring profitability. Team: 47 people.
Hands-on leader guiding multiple teams of cloud architects and software engineers in building innovative applications using AWS technologies. Objectives: - Deliver excellence - Timely and budget-focused - Cultivate a positive work environment Responsibilities: - People: Engineering Management, Hiring, Mentoring - Tech: Oversee multiple architectures, stacks, solutions, and contexts - Product: Contribute to product decisions and roadmap planning, - Business: Understand and apply knowledge across various industries and use cases. Team: 10 people
Led two teams: CMS and Ranking Tools. Challenges: - Support and optimize operational flows - Apply new business rules - Continuous Improvement Responsibilities: - People: Engineering Management, Hiring, Career, 1:1, Keep objectives clear. - Tech: Architecture, IT Health Metrics - Product: Support product decision and roadmap - Business: Support data/decision
We pivoted Lunix to SpendFlow: A new procure-to-pay experience.
Led our incredible team through several crypto initiatives to built Lunix from scratch. People : Build solid culture/relations, Hiring, Career, Scaling Tech : Software Development, Architecture, Team Scalability, PoC , Coding (30% of time) Product: Product Management, Discovery, metrics, hypothesis, roadmap Business: Partnerships Team: 11 people Tags: Manager, Crypto, defi, trade, earn, card, fintech, startup, mgm, security, cloud, AWS, availability, finance, microservices, PHP, Laravel, Angular, Node, JS, Flutter, Ionic, AWS, Lambda, Sql, NoSql
Led teams to build a flexible environment to which countries add products and create a custom MGM program. The biggest challenge was to be scalable without impacting UX. - People - Engineering Management, Team building, Hiring, Career, 1:1, Keep objectives clear. - Tech - Architecture, IT Health Metrics, Continuous Improvement, Prioritization, Deliveries, Data - Product - Product Management, Roadmap, metrics, visibility. - Business: Support data/decisions Team: 10 People Tags: Engineering Manager, People, Metrics, Product, Growth, MGM, Backlog, Business, Career, Feedback, Prioritization, Trade-off, Jira, Confluence, Microservices, Java, Node, Groovy, React, Mysql, Kibana, NewRelic.
Two teams working side-by-side with product on theses scopes: Recurring payment API - Turn a signature feature into a recurring product. Picpay PRO - Exclusive features for self-employed people. People: Team building, Hiring, Career, Mentoring, Keep objectives clear. Tech : Architecture, Health metrics, Prioritization, Coding (10% of time) Product: Metrics, hypothesis, Roadmap, Research Interviews. Business: Focal point with business partners. Team: 12 people Tags: Jira, Tableau, MixPanel, Microservices, Docker, API, RESTful, PHP, Java, Mobile, Laravel, Lumen, TDD, PHPUnit, MongoDB, Mysql, Beanstalk, SQS, Swagger, Git, New Relic, Kibana, Slack.
We owned all Reward Programs: Cashback, MGM, Coupons, Partnerships. Mission: Get features from monolith to microservices, add instrumentation, turn all flexible and allow to receive many features. - People - Team building, Hiring, Mentoring - Tech - Architecture, Remove impediments, optimization, prioritization, deliveries, availability, coding (40% of time) - Product - Roadmap , Backlogs, Unblock N Growth Initiatives. Highlights: - Hired and onboarded 56 people on multiple teams. - Reduce 80% of Contact Rate (Users with some problem with reward) - Rewards programs were responsible for 90% of new users. Tags: Jira, Tableau, MixPanel, Microservices, Docker, API, RESTful, PHP, Java, Mobile, Laravel, Lumen, TDD, PHPUnit, MongoDB, Mysql, Beanstalk, SQS, Swagger, Git, New Relic, Kibana, Slack.