Professional Experience

My professional journey through the tech industry, building innovative solutions and growing as an engineer.

SDE

Xeal Energy

Developing manufacturing and internal engineering tools while testing backend, firmware, mobile, and web applications for EV charging infrastructure.

  • Created the tool used to provision chargers to production based in the Qt UI framework, currently in use in manufacturing
  • Created CLI tools for engineering teams to speed up tasks (DB, API, Serial, Bluetooth)
  • Helped launch a new protocol from scratch and test the backend, firmware, mobile, and web apps

Lead Engineer

SpringLabs

Led development of a cloud-based BI platform and managed CI/CD infrastructure for a fintech company.

  • Developed a BI platform ingesting AWS CloudWatch data into an S3 data lake with ETL transformations using Glue/Spark for consumption in Athena/Presto
  • Deployed the BI platform in AWS using Pulumi for easy dev/prod environment management and infrastructure code reviews
  • Developed GitHub Actions for CI/CD tasks (linting, testing, deployment). Previously managed Jenkins pipelines using Bash and Python

Lead Engineer

Atom Tickets

Led test automation efforts for a movie ticketing platform, focusing on REST API testing and performance engineering.

  • Created pytest functionality for test case writers, utilizing hooks, fixtures, and parametrization to increase coverage and reduce manual QA work
  • Used Locust to run load tests against REST endpoints; collected metrics (DataDog, response time, payload) analyzed via Pandas and reported in Jupyter Notebooks

Lead Engineer

Chrome River

Led UI test automation infrastructure development for an expense management platform.

  • Developed an infrastructure using Robot Framework and Selenium to abstract the DOM, facilitating easy and stable UI test creation for dynamic configurations

Dev Manager

A Vida e Bela

Managed development of a customer support Windows desktop application for sales personnel.

  • Developed an MVC Windows desktop app (C# / SQL) for sales personnel to retrieve information with integrated permissions and caching
This is the hardest I've worked, being a startup with limited resources and tight deadlines. I had to wear multiple hats, including development, devops, and IT support.

SDET

Big Fish Games

Developed testing tools for common services at a leading casual gaming company.

  • Developed tools and performed testing for common services including Message Bus, Cache Access, and Game Club payment systems (Java, Spring, Active MQ, Apache Tomcat)

SDET Lead

Microsoft

Led test automation stabilization for Visual Studio Sustained Engineering, enabling efficient contractor management.

  • Stabilized automation to enable management by contractors, allowing the core team to focus on increasing test coverage through tool development