About me.
I'm a Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience.
I'm from São José dos Campos (Brazil). I have worked as a Software Engineer and as a Engineering Manager. What I do like the most is to code, learn new programming languages and lead teams. In my free time I like to play video games, read books and exercice.
Education & Skills
- 2014-2017
Software Engineering
FATEC São José dos Campos
My skills
I have more experience with backend development, but I've done projects that required front-end as well, I do like to venture in SRE too, having over 4 years of experience with AWS.
Experience.
Senior Software Engineer
One of the founding members of the engineering team. Responsible for creating the company's backend architecture and to create a great tech culture.
Worked with Ruby on Rails, gRPC, Kubernetes, Terraform, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and React.
Head of Engineering
As Head of Engineering I was the leader of 6 other leaders directly and indirectly the leader of 30 engineers. Together we maintained and improved a marketplace of over 1M/month visits, a huge data lake and tons of microservices. We created an awesome culture and a great place to work.
Engineering Manager
Leader of a team of 6 engineers, responsible for planning engineering projects and overseeing the efficient running of projects, including providing supervision and guidance to other engineers.
Created new management processes that helped other Engineer Managers and did a couple of tech talks to the company's tech team.
As responsible for the most critical team in the company, we created a new project to handle all the company's cash flow and optimize the cost. Also we implemented Kafka and taught the other teams how to use it to communicate between microservices.
Tech lead
Was responsible for building a new side project for the company, had to do the design, product discovery, development and ship it to production.
Learned how to use AWS with Terraform and how to create a product from scratch.
Later on the team grew and I was responsible for technically leading a team of 4 engineers, working with Ruby on Rails, VueJS and PostgreSQL. The project held a traffic of thousands users.
Junior Software Engineer
Worked with Ruby on Rails on backend, vanilla Javascript on frontend and PostgreSQL for the database. Was responsible for building a website that held up to 1M total visits in 8 months. Was firstly introduced to Elasticsearch and async processing with Sidekiq.
Intern Software Engineer
Worked with Java, Spring, Hibernate and MySQL. Was responsible for developing a machine learning software to identify the cars plate and classify that car in the correct category.
What I do?
Backend Development
This is my strongest skill, I love to work with backend and create organized and scalable softwares. My main experience is with Rails, but open to new challenges.
Site Reliability Engineering
I have experience with AWS and Terraform. I've also implemented observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
Automated Testing
99% of test coverage, if is not tested them will not go to production. Also know how to create automated CI/CD pipelines.
Gamer
I'm a Horde player, love to play video games with friends. World of Warcraft, New World, League of Legends and so much more!
Team Lead
Know how to use JIRA to manage team's tasks, collect metrics to improve performance and how to do carrer follow-ups to guide engineers.
Frontend Development
Have worked with ReactJS and VueJS and created responsible web applications. Also have experience with SEO and web vitals.
Get in touch.
What's your story? Get in touch
Always available for a talk. Feel free to get in touch.
- São José dos Campos, SP - Brazil
- contato@sergiohilgert.com