Summary

I lead engineering teams, empowering them to deliver secure, reliable, resilient, and efficient systems. I align architectural direction and engineering priorities with business objectives, guiding data-driven decisions in close collaboration with product and business teams. I strengthen team autonomy, engineering standards, and operational excellence, balancing performance, cost efficiency, and sustainability to drive lasting outcomes for customers and the business.

Skills

Leadership & Management: Technical Leadership, Engineering Management, Stakeholder Management
Architecture & Engineering: Software Architecture, Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture
Reliability & Delivery: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, Observability, Incident Management

Experience

Software Engineering Coordinator, UOL EdTech (Passei Direto)06/2026 - Present

• Lead the Payments and Subscriptions engineering domain, combining engineering management and technical leadership to align architecture, delivery, people development, product strategy, and business goals.
• Manage and develop software engineers through mentoring, continuous feedback, performance management, and career development, strengthening team autonomy, accountability, and execution.
• Define technical direction and oversee the architectural evolution of payment, billing, renewal, and subscription systems, prioritizing scalability, reliability, security, resilience, and maintainability.
• Manage delivery planning, initiative prioritization, technical risks, dependencies, and engineering performance indicators, improving predictability and supporting data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, Operations, and business teams to translate strategic objectives into sustainable technical solutions and execution plans.
• Evolve payment and subscription journeys to reduce user friction, improve renewal continuity, protect recurring revenue, and support long-term business sustainability.
• Drive continuous improvements in availability, observability, operational efficiency, incident response, engineering processes, and software delivery quality.

Senior Software Engineer, UOL EdTech (Passei Direto)04/2025 - 05/2026

• Build deep expertise in payment and subscription systems, driving scalable billing orchestration, lifecycle management, and churn prevention.
• Lead the architecture and evolution of the monetization platform, enabling scalable recurring revenue across a large user base.
• Re-architect subscription lifecycle and billing flows, unlocking flexible pricing strategies (cross-sell, up-sell, down-sell) and faster business experimentation.
• Design and implement a Proactive Customer Health Indicator (PDI), reducing involuntary churn and improving revenue retention through automated remediation workflows.
• Drive root cause analysis and systemic fixes for critical incidents, increasing platform reliability and protecting recurring revenue streams.
• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, accelerating delivery while preserving quality standards, and establishing a pilot later scaled across teams.
• Moderate technical strategy forums and weekly engineering rituals, aligning teams on architectural direction and elevating technical standards.

Independent Software Engineer & Technical Consultant, Independent Consulting07/2019 - Present

• Deliver part-time software engineering and technical consulting engagements across EdTech, digital learning, e-commerce, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure.
• Design and integrate Moodle, WordPress, BigBlueButton, WebRTC, REST, and SOAP solutions, automating enrollment, attendance, identity verification, certification, and reporting while supporting regulatory compliance.
• Develop government integrations with Departments of Motor Vehicles across 15 Brazilian states, supporting student validation, course progress tracking, regulatory reporting, and certificate issuance.
• Build custom full-stack systems for subscriptions, payments, academic scheduling, certificate generation, and digital signatures, including a browser-based workflow that eliminated reliance on the DocuSign API.
• Optimize BigBlueButton and WebRTC platforms for education and music, improving audio quality, bandwidth efficiency, recording management, analytics, and service stability.
• Migrate applications, databases, and media workloads across on-premises and cloud environments, preserving data integrity and service continuity.
• Troubleshoot and remediate production issues involving application security, performance, APIs, databases, media processing, and infrastructure, improving reliability and recovery speed.

Senior Software Architect, VideoFront01/2023 - 03/2025

• Specialized in digital media, streaming, asset management, and scalable video platform architecture.
• Led technical alignment, engineering mentorship, roadmap execution, and vendor evaluation across scalability, security, integration, and cost.
• Re-architected MP4-to-HLS delivery, reducing costs by up to 80% and startup latency by approximately 30%, while improving playback scalability and user experience.
• Migrated 500+ TB across storage providers and implemented multicloud production/backup separation, improving resilience, disaster recovery, and service continuity.
• Designed a multi-CDN strategy, reducing vendor lock-in and enabling resilient failover across providers.
• Implemented event-driven media pipelines to parallelize media and subtitle processing, improving throughput and reducing subtitle processing time by approximately 50%.
• Adopted micro-frontend architecture using runtime integration strategies, enabling independent team ownership, decoupled deployments, and improved frontend scalability.
• Implemented GA4 instrumentation to improve visibility into learner behavior, engagement funnels, and UX optimization opportunities.

Mid-Level Software Engineer, VideoFront12/2019 - 01/2023

• Worked as a Full-Stack PWA developer, building and evolving customer-facing video and education solutions across frontend, backend, and media workflows.
• Improved video processing throughput by approximately 50% through resource optimization and asynchronous parallelization, increasing platform stability and reducing production incidents.
• Refactored thumbnail generation with scene-change detection, cutting processing time by approximately 40% while improving visual accuracy and quality.
• Delivered integrations with streaming and education platforms, expanding product capabilities and accelerating customer onboarding and adoption.
• Reduced technical debt through refactoring, design patterns, automated tests, and documentation, enabling faster and safer feature delivery.
• Owned triage and remediation of high-priority production incidents using observability signals, reducing user-facing disruption and improving recovery speed.

Intern, VideoFront03/2019 - 12/2019

• Built MyHomeStudio, enabling low-cost browser-based lesson recording.
• Delivered presenter tooling, including whiteboard, teleprompter, material display, and remote/tablet controls.
• Implemented real-time chroma key and rendering flows sustaining approximately 30 FPS on mid-range laptops, improving in-browser video performance and user experience.
• Developed live rooms with WebRTC and RTMP restreaming, expanding streaming options to external platforms.
• Quickly grew into end-to-end feature ownership, increasing team throughput and freeing senior engineers for higher-complexity work.

Undergraduate Researcher, Scientific Initiation Program (PIBIC/CNPq), Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)08/2018 - 07/2019

• Researched one-shot face verification using a SqueezeNet-based Siamese CNN with contrastive loss to distinguish identities from a single training image.

Municipal Civil Guard, Recife City Hall03/2014 - 03/2020

• Developed discipline, respect for hierarchy, and strict adherence to operational protocols. As a Patrol Chief, I led teams in critical situations where decisions carried operational and legal consequences. This shaped my ability to make assertive and accountable decisions under pressure. In technology, I apply the principle that security and compliance belong throughout the project lifecycle-not only at the end-and deliver systems as resilient and reliable as the operations I led.

Education

Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science (Distributed Systems)
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) - Center for Informatics (CIn), Recife, Brazil
02/2025 - 12/2026 (Expected)

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) - Center for Informatics (CIn), Recife, Brazil
07/2014 - 06/2020

Certifications

Professional Cloud Architect - Google Cloud
Issued: Oct 2024 · Expires: Oct 2026 · View credential

Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate - Google
Duration: 266 hours · Completed: Apr 2025 - Feb 2026 · View credential

Site Reliability Engineering - Google
Duration: 13 hours · Completed: Feb 2026 - Mar 2026 · View credential

Cyber Academy - FEBRABAN
Duration: 40 hours · Completed: Sep 2024 - Oct 2024

Web Developer - Microcamp
Duration: 264 hours · Completed: Jan 2011 - Feb 2013

Languages

English - Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese - Native