About
Senior Elixir Engineer with 11+ years of experience building fault-tolerant, high-throughput distributed systems across logistics, fintech, and SaaS. Deep expertise in Elixir/OTP, Phoenix, LiveView, and real-time asynchronous architectures. Proven track record shipping systems that process millions of records and hundreds of thousands of transactions under real production load.
Passionate about AI-assisted engineering: published author on LLM-powered development workflows, and hands-on practitioner integrating AI tooling (Claude, Cursor, MCP servers) into team development cycles to multiply engineering output.
Selected impact: reduced data ingestion from ~5 hours to under 10 minutes processing ~1M records per run · built Stripe payment system handling 200,000+ transactions/month · architected distributed systems powering ~100,000 deliveries/day across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia · implemented Tax ID compliance across 10+ international markets enabling global merchant onboarding.
Experience
Outcomes and results across 11+ years — scale, cost savings, and better product and team performance.
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Senior Software Engineer · Stord
Apr 2025 — PresentUnited States
- ▸ Built an AI-powered on-call assistant integrating the live codebase with MCP servers for Freshdesk, Atlassian, Datadog, and Kafka — enabling engineers to resolve incidents in seconds without context switching
- ▸ Coached the team on Claude plan mode, structured prompting, and AI plugin workflows — accelerating feature design cycles
- ▸ Engineered combine/separate shipment logic handling ~100,000 daily orders, preventing incorrect fulfilled statuses at scale
- ▸ Implemented Tax ID support across 10+ markets (CPF, CNPJ, EORI, VAT, RUT, RFC, CUIT) — enabling international merchant onboarding
- ▸ Built shipping A/B testing framework comparing price vs. delivery speed to drive data-driven decisions at scale
- ▸ Reduced support tickets ~80/incident cycle via real-time freight pallet visualization feature
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Senior / Lead Software Engineer · Lolo
Aug 2023 — May 2025United States
- ▸ Architected the full backend from scratch with Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView — supporting ~800 senders and 50+ partners
- ▸ Built Stripe payment system handling 200,000+ transactions/month with subscription billing, automated retries, and failure recovery
- ▸ Designed Oban-based pipelines delivering 400,000+ emails and SMS per week, fully decoupled and resilient to third-party downtime
- ▸ Led team of 5 in adopting TDD, clean architecture, and LiveView patterns — reducing onboarding from 1 week to 1 hour
- ▸ Introduced GitHub Copilot and AI content generation across the engineering team to accelerate delivery velocity
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Senior Software Engineer · Clarus R+D
May 2021 — May 2023Columbus, Ohio
- ▸ Built real-time W2 PDF ingestion pipeline (S3 + parsing API + PostgreSQL) — cutting per-client processing from days to seconds, handling ~1,000 W2s per client per cycle
- ▸ Contributed to a platform enabling clients to claim over $100M in R&D tax credits annually
- ▸ Eliminated manual deployments with CI/CD pipeline via GitHub Actions and AWS EKS
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Senior Software Engineer · Zubale
Jul 2020 — Jul 2021United States
- ▸ Optimized Elixir data ingestion API to process ~1M records in under 10 minutes — down from ~5 hours — eliminating daily bottlenecks and weekend overtime
- ▸ Architected distributed systems with Kafka and GraphQL powering ~100,000 deliveries/day across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia
- ▸ Built geolocation-enabled mobile backend for contractor order fulfillment across 3 countries
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Lead Software Engineer · HDI Seguros
Jul 2019 — Jul 2020São Paulo, Brazil
- ▸ Developed production-grade RESTful APIs (Richardson Level 2) as part of company-wide Digital Modernization Strategy
- ▸ Engineered the Open Insurance API in compliance with SUSEP's framework — among the first insurers in Brazil to meet requirements
- ▸ Replaced legacy Progress Database with PostgreSQL and MongoDB; containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes
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Senior Software Development Engineer · TOTVS
Oct 2018 — Jun 2019São Paulo, Brazil
- ▸ Led migration from monolithic architecture to microservices, increasing deploy frequency and enabling faster innovation
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Senior Software Engineer · Concrete Solutions
Jan 2016 — Oct 2018São Paulo, Brazil
- ▸ Built REST APIs and business tools for enterprise clients using Java 8 and Spring Boot
- ▸ Delivered BDD/Cucumber automated test suites for mobile applications
- ▸ Worked across multiple client projects delivering microservices architectures with Spring Cloud
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Software Engineer · CWI Software
Jan 2015 — Dec 2015São Paulo, Brazil
- ▸ Integrated enterprise systems via JMS and REST web services; full-stack development with Spring, Hibernate, Angular
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Software Engineer Intern · Ericsson Inovação
Jan 2013 — Dec 2014São Paulo, Brazil
- ▸ Built CI pipelines with Jenkins; developed inventory management system with Java and JSF
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Portfolio
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