A brazillian-canadian people-first leader building impactful products and high-performing teams for ~21.5 years.
I grow people with empathy, trust and accountability and organizations of all sizes with efficient and low-touch processes.
I'm continually upskilling myself and love sharing what I know. Feel free to check some of my testimonials and recommendations on my LinkedIn and Topmate profiles.
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Managed several teams and charters in the Enterprise org:
Responsible for key Enterprise metrics and projects, unlocking millions of dollars in revenue
Responsible for key products like SkillSets, Employability and Admin experience
Highest retention rate in the org
Improved team's processes for better remote-first practices and more efficient collaboration with other teams and stakeholders
Organizational contributions:
Created and owned several org-wide process, increasing key metrics, reducing touchpoints, increasing accountability and better equipping high leadership on critical decision making
Created an org-wide policy, increasing inclusiveness and belonging
Above average interview count
Transitioned a Senior Engineer towards becoming an Engineering Manager
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
Software Engineering Manager II ➜ Software Engineering Manager III @ Amazon / AWS
Sep 2017 – Dec 2020
Proposed and implemented an engineering-wide "Going off-call" policy, increasing inclusiveness and belonging
As a certified Cultural Competences for Teams instructor, increased inclusiveness and diversity awareness to the many hundreds of employees that took the training
Part of the Software Engineering Manager Peer Advisory board, helping new managers onboard and be successful in the company
Promoted to Software Engineering Manager III
Amazon Payments
Team owning 2 charters (International Expansion integrations and Payment on Delivery)
Led a cross-functional team to deliver the end-to-end payments integration for Amazon Turkey (amazon.com.tr). This multi-year project involved weekly collaboration and coordination with different teams, roles, partners and vendors in different countries
First team to start PSD2 work that enabled Amazon to stay complaint in Europe (SEPA DD)
Owned Payment on Delivery for India market
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's sourcing efficiency by ~32% and our candidate diversity by ~11%
Senior Frontend Engineer ➜ Frontend Team Lead @ Brandwatch
Apr 2016 – Feb 2017
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
Short collaboration with X-Team's CTO researching, planning and developing the next phase of X-Labs (their open source initiative) and other internal projects involving IndexedDB
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
Senior Frontend Engineer ➜ Frontend Team Lead @ Content Fleet
Apr 2012 – Mar 2013
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
Junior Full-stack Engineer @ DR Sistemas & Interagi
2004 – 2005
Interagi and DR were where I had my full-time 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 a Backend application for the public law sector. Responsible for collecting specs from Business and implementing them in Java
Vega Sistemas, Brazil: High-level architecture on migrating a desktop application to a web platform
SENAC Goiás, Brazil: Consultancy on web development best practices, productivity tools, agile methodologies and programming languages for their internal develoopment department
Federal University of Goiás, Brazil: Developed their public admission (Vestibular) system and website
, 12 Factor Apps, Web Development, Coaching, Agile Methodologies, Web Services, REST, Software Testing, Software Quality, Continuous Integration
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.