const matheus: Engineer = {
role: "Senior Software Engineer | Lead Developer",
location: "Brasília, Brazil 🇧🇷",
experience: "9+ years",
nickname: "agnus", // not a surname — a nickname I've carried forever
currentFocus: ["Platform Engineering", "Developer Productivity", "Microservices"],
contact: "ferreira.zx@gmail.com",
};Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience delivering scalable platforms and customer-facing systems across finance, agriculture, and ecommerce sectors. I've led teams of up to 10 engineers, architected microservices processing thousands of transactions daily, and built CI/CD pipelines that cut deployment time by over 70%.
- 🏗️ Platform Engineering — building self-service infrastructure that frees up teams to ship faster
- ⚡ Legacy Modernization — turning fragile monoliths into resilient, observable systems
- 🧩 Full-Stack Depth — from polished frontends to distributed backends and cloud infra
- 🎯 Developer Productivity — cutting toil so engineers can focus on what matters
- 🤝 Technical Leadership — mentoring, system design, and delivery predictability
Frontend
Backend
Cloud & DevOps
Testing & Quality
🔵 Orbia — Senior Software Engineer & Lead Developer (Apr 2024 – Present)
- 🚀 Built a self-service platform that automated infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipeline creation, boosting engineering productivity by 40%
- ⏱️ Reduced manual environment setup from 3 hours → 15 minutes using Infrastructure as Code across 50+ environments
- ✅ Achieved 99.2% deployment success rate, cutting release friction by 65%
- 🤝 Designed opinionated workflows adopted by 80+ developers in collaboration with networking, DNS, and Kubernetes specialists
- 🔒 Implemented RBAC and encryption standards, achieving 100% governance compliance with zero security incidents
🌱 Orbia — Senior Software Engineer, Digital Transformation (Aug 2023 – Mar 2024)
- 👥 Led a team of 8 engineers delivering a new digital sales platform for the agriculture sector — 55% adoption increase, 35% faster order processing
- 🔄 Refactored a legacy .NET monolith into 12 Kotlin microservices, improving uptime from 94% → 99.7% and cutting response time by 60%
- 💳 Architected a Kotlin microservice handling 25,000+ daily transactions with 99.9% reliability across 5 external partner integrations
- 🖥️ Modernized a React/Next.js micro-frontend, cutting bundle size by 42% and page load from 4.2s → 1.8s
🔺 ThoughtWorks — Tech Lead (Feb 2022 – Jul 2023)
- 🏁 Managed a team of 10 engineers during a complex platform transition, completing knowledge transfer 3 weeks ahead of schedule
- 🛠️ Applied Patterns of Legacy Displacement to reduce technical debt by 50%, improving maintainability from 38% → 82%
- 📈 Led 15+ architectural decision discussions supporting 3x traffic growth
- 🎓 Mentored 6 engineers via pair programming, reducing external consultant dependency by 90%
- 📊 Boosted sprint completion rate from 65% → 92% through better observability and review processes
⚡ ThoughtWorks — Senior Software Engineer (Dec 2020 – Jan 2022)
- 🌍 Built customer-facing systems serving 500,000+ monthly active users across finance, food, and ecommerce
- 🚢 Cut deployment time from 2 hours → 18 minutes, achieving 95% first-time deployment success
- ☁️ Maintained 99.8% uptime on AWS (EC2, S3, SQS), handling peak loads of 10,000 concurrent users
- 🔌 Delivered 30+ RESTful APIs with sub-200ms average response time
📜 Earlier Career — ília digital, Purple Seed, Foton Tech, E-Peça, BossaBox, Nolu (2013 – 2020)
- Built and shipped products for 200,000+ daily transactions and 100,000+ monthly users
- Consistently improved CI/CD cycles, test coverage, and system stability across all engagements
- Grew from junior to senior across diverse domains: fintech, ecommerce, blockchain, mobile, and SaaS
Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems UDF Centro Universitário Asa Sul — 2016 – 2020