Luiz Gonzaga dos Santos Filho, MBA

Managed several teams and charters in the Enterprise org:

Responsible for key Enterprise metrics and projects, unlocking millions of dollar in revenue
Responsible for key products like SkillSets, Employability and Admin experience
Created a new operational process for the org, increasing operational health metrics
Measurably improved "bus factor" in the team (knowledge distribution and component ownership)
Improved team's processes for better remote-first practices and more efficient collaboration with other teams and stakeholders

Organizational contributions:

Above average interview count
Mentored a Senior Engineer towards becoming an Engineering Manager
Created an engineering-wide policy, increasing inclusiveness and belonging
Volunteered in the DE&I squad, helping come up and drive many of the org-wide goals taken in the area
Improved our Postmortem process, automating and reducing high touch-points, enabling better accountability, metrics and easier knowledge sharing within the company
Reduced context switching, improved documentation and efficiency for cross functional collaboration in Enterprise org's biggest cross-functional internal forum
Proposed measurable improvements for other orgs (Recruiting and IT), increasing the hiring pipeline throughput and diversity

Proposed and implemented an engineering-wide "Going off-call" policy, increasing inclusiveness and belonging
Became a certified Cultural Competences for Teams instructor, increasing inclusiveness and diversity awareness to the many hundreds of employees that took the training.
Part of the Software Development Manager Peer Advisory board, helping new managers onboard and be successful in the company
Promoted to Software Development Manager III

Amazon Payments

Team owning 2 charters (International Expansion integrations and Payment on Delivery)
Delivered amazon.com.tr (Amazon Turkey) payments integration. This multi-year project involved weekly collaboration and coordination with different teams, roles, partners, vendors in different countries.
First team to start PSD2 work that enabled Amazon to stay complaint in Europe (SEPA DD)

AWS Route53

Started a team from scratch, hiring 7 engineers
Responsible for maintaining existing and building new generations of different Route53's User Experience (Consoles) with measurable operational, accessibility and usability improvements.
Owned 5 different products in 2 different tech stacks, serving different sub- orgs with different stakeholders.
Launched two world-wide projects and expanded our presence to multiple new partitions and regions.
Improved Route53 org's sourcing efficiency by ~32% and our candidate diversity by ~11%.

Moved back to Germany and Brandwatch. After 8 months, I have become the team lead.

Worked on existing and new features on their main product (Analytics)
Wrote a script to perform a massive refactor (thousands of files) to update a ~5 year old jQuery codebase (with several breaking changes) to the latest version, improving bundle size, patching security vulnerabilities, improving performance on some DOM operations and enabling new jQuery features for the team to use
Tracking overall progress of the team and removing blockers
Helping the PM with Scrum ceremonies and prioritization
Having local, more frequent 1-1s with the team

Hired by the awesome remote company X-Team to help researching, planning and developing the next phase of X-Labs (their open source initiative) and other internal projects involving IndexedDB. Great team, expert people, cool tech and tools.

DataEasy provides different solutions for end-to-end electronic document process management and automation. It has Brazil's biggest private and government organizations as their clients.

Technical contributions:

Managed 5 teams and 4 charters (all their products)
Hired for a new team from scratch (5 engineers and 1 Business Analyst)
Migrated the company's infrastructure to Git and Github
Implement Semantic Versioning to all products in the company
Implemented the company's first automated release script
Create their first CI pipeline with Jenkins and Github
Introduced Slack to the company and create a set of ChatOps commands to manage releases
The points above enabled me to introduce the concept of "DevOps" in the company, enabling engineers to prep releases on their own with confidence and efficiency, enabling IT department (previously preparing the releases) to stay small and lean
Introduced advanced monitoring in our applications (New Relic)

Organizational contributions:

Created "Funky Fridays": bi-weekly innovation/learning days where employees could experiment with new technologies and solutions, prepare a tech talk for the company, etc
Documented all process in the engineering department in BPMN and presented to all employees. That tacit knowledge was now documented and allowed us to identify rooms for improvement, enabling employees to also think about improvements and to better understand the organization in general, facilitating career growth and hence retention
Collaborated with local University and had a few senior engineers join me in automated tests course provided by top professors. This combined with the above allowed us to streamline our testing cycles, reducing a big bottleneck in our release cycle
Helped choose a new ticketing system for the company

Founded and ran the first Javascript user group of the state.

Workshops planning and organizing
Presenting talks
Community moderation
Website creation and maintenance,

SENAC is the largest agency for professional education in Brazil, present in more than 1800 cities. This was a short job as a consultant on new web technologies and architectures to aid their team and organization towards a more robust and modern system architecture, developer happiness and productivity.

Worked on existing and new features on their main product (Analytics). Wrote a simple codemod to organize and format files, reducing future diff sizes and improving readability of the entire codebase.

Worked as frontend-focused full stack engineer.

Developed RESTful APIs, and their main MVC application.
Created the company's first automated deploy script.
Sped up the app's performance by minimizing the amount of network calls, introducing tools to minimize source code, removing dead code, downsampling raster images, etc.
Improved the app's UX and performance in high resolution displays by drawing icons in pure CSS, converting images to vectors (SVG), etc.

Became the Frontend Team Lead. Additional responsibilities:

Responsible for the team's conventions, refactorings, architectural decisions and app performance improvements.
Responsible for training team members and new hires.

Worked as full stack engineer on "HR Net": the State's human resources web application responsible for payments, vacations, contracts, leaves, etc
Proposed and added several performance, usability and accessibility improvements, impacting hundreds of thousands of daily users
Became a Certified Java Programmer

Interagi and DR were where I had my internships - 6 months each.

At Interagi, I developed CRUD applications in PHP, MySQL and HTML and some image processing via PHP
At DR Sistemas, I developed an application for the public law sector. Responsible for collecting specs from Business and implementing them in Java

Some companies I have consulted for:

Vega Sistemas, Goiânia, Brazil — Consultancy on migrating a desktop application to web platform. Tech, tools and paradigms shift.

SENAC Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil — Consultancy on web development, best practices, productivity tools, agile methodologies and comparison of dynamic versus compiled languages.

Federal University of Goiás — Development of the Public contest (Vestibular) system and website.

As a speaker or instructor

26 Oct 2018 – Berlin, Germany

Amazon

Debugging Complex Things

03 Mar 2017 – Berlin, Germany

EuroStaff Group

Debugging Complex Things

08 Nov 2016 – Berlin, Germany

Brandwatch

Debugging Complex Things

18 Feb 2016 – Goiânia, Brazil

DataEasy Ltda

"Areas of Responsibility Model"

05 Feb 2016 – Goiânia, Brazil

DataEasy Ltda

"SMART Goals"

20 Nov 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

DataEasy Ltda

"12 Factor Apps"

30 Oct 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

DataEasy Ltda

"Developing Peopleware"

17 Oct 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

IV JoinCommunity

"Developing Peopleware"

17 Oct 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

IV JoinCommunity

"IoT: Introducing Tessel"

16 Sep 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

GOJS 7min.js

"Meteor.js"

01 Sep 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

Federal University of Goiás

"Developing a career"

14 Ago 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás

"Developing Peopleware"

08 Jun 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

Federal University of Goiás

"Programming Languages"

20 Mar 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

Federal University of Goiás

"Software Engineering at DataEasy"

31 May 2014 – Goiânia, Brazil

III Join Community

"Modern JS: from Coder to Shareholder"

29 Mar 2014 – Goiânia, Brazil

I Workshop GOJS

"Javascript Promises"

Jul 2014 – Goiânia, Brazil

DataEasy Brown Bag Sessions

"Introduction to Agile Methodologies"

"Git & GitHub basics"

14 Nov 2013 – Goiânia, Brazil

Absolut Software - 12minutes.me

"Cultural Intelligence and the Connection Economy"

17 and 18 Feb 2011 – Goiânia, Brazil

SEBRAE

"How tango can make you a better (business) man"

09 Apr 2011 – Itapuranga, Brazil

I LatAm Free Software Installation Festival (FLISOL)

"Entrepreneurship with free software"

Ago 2011 – Goiânia, Brazil

Computer, Electrical and Civil Engineering graduation

Graduation Ceremony Speech

Ago 2009 – Goiânia, Brazil

VI Goiás Forum of Free Software (FGSL)

"Introduction to Ruby Language"

June 2009 – Goiânia, Brazil

Goiás State Government

LibreOffice instructor

Volunteer Work

Volunteer work ignited in me the caring for people: be them the ones we are the doing the work for, or my colleagues. It also taught me to value and dedicate my time for something else than money, for something that would do (or be) good for someone besides myself.

You can check my open source contributions at github.com/lfilho.

2014; 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

Join Community

Co-organizer & speaker

JavascriptNodeTalksCommunity eventsLeadershipCareer

2012; 2014 – Goiânia, Brazil

Napoleon Hill Institute's Master Mind

Lead auxiliary instructor

LeadershipPublic SpeakingCoachingEffective CommunicationTime managing

2008 – 2011 – Goiânia, Brazil

Grupo Arte Nascente (GAN)

Actor & Web Developer

PHPNGOArtTheaterCommunicationNon-for profit

2006 – 2015 – Goiânia, Brazil

Zapt Arteatral

Actor, Web Developer, President, Artistic Director & Communication Coordinator

PHPArtTheaterCommunicationNon-for profit

2007 – 2009 – Goiânia, Brazil

AIESEC Brazil / GO

Marketing, Communication & Information Management teams

MarketingPublic RelationsExternal CommunicationInternal Communication

2000 – 2008 – Goiânia, Brazil

Mocidade Espírita André Luiz

Coordinator, Speaker & Member

SpiritualismLeadershipEvents

Experiences

Software Engineering

As a speaker or instructor

Volunteer Work

Education

Relevant courses or specializations taken32 courses on software, entrepreneurship, leadership and self development with a total of ~1278 hours

Relevant events attended27 events on technology and entrepreneurship in different cities and countries

Certifications and Noteworthy achievements

Languages

(The not so) Off topicsSome other things that help shaping the professional I am

Relevant content

Software Development23 books on programming languages, techniques and tools

Soft Skills45 books on leadership, culture, productivity, entrepreneurship and management