Jul 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid

• Designed and developed an infrastructure platform (compute, database, CDN, load balancer, observability, CI/CD, etc) that hosts and scales all shared transactional APIs used by our games (e.g. match-making, geo location, tos, authentication, player data, marketplace, remote config, etc.). Game teams across the company also use this infrastructure platform to deploy their game servers.
• Created the infrastructure team inside the company and staffed it from three engineers to twelve. This includes hiring/training an Engineering Manager, another Principal, a Staff infrastructure engineer and much more.
• Responsible for maintaining and expanding a portfolio of more than fifteen API services and two front-end products. Technically leading a team of more than twenty engineers, promoting training sessions and mentoring.
• Designed and deployed a company-wide distributed load testing platform (backend and frontend). This platform is used to load test all games before they get released.

Feb 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, New York, United States

• Architected and developed a Model Endpoint Provisioning Service that makes it seamless to deploy model endpoints on the cloud (AWS).
• Onboarded Cash App's Features Store to Databricks and created their main backfill pipeline making the system ready for production.
• Designed and implemented a proxy service to pipe data between Prefect (GCP) and AWS resources.
• Designed and developed a system to ingest Change Data Capture (CDC) data from OLTP databases into a Lakehouse as Data Marts (OLAP).

Jul 2021 – Feb 2022 · 7 mos · New York, New York, United States

• Designed and implemented a module to enable live and batch inference via AWS SageMaker endpoints on the model inference service.
• Worked on integrating Block's main decision engine to Whylabs in order to enable live model monitoring (impacts both Square and CashApp).

May 2021 – Jul 2021 · 2 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid

• Joined the Microsoft Teams organization, and both work and team were great, but I decided to leave in order to pursue an opportunity to be one of the founding members of the ML Ops team at Square.

Mar 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Led a team of 10+ engineers on the development of many initiatives such as a ChatBot, Training platforms, Real-time communication apps, CI/CD platform, Onboarding tools, and Scheduling systems.
• Designed and implemented an inter-service communication proxy. This proxy handles millions of requests per day and was later utilized by other teams.
• Mentored 5 engineers ranging from interns, juniors, and mid-tiers.

May 2019 – Mar 2020 · 10 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Architected and developed a generic end-to-end Machine Learning pipeline to train and serve any ML model.
• Developed a system to grade open-ended questions in Spanish using Machine Learning (project Santillana). Received a company prize for my work on this project. Support for other languages was later added with the help of the Amazon Translate service.
• Worked on many PoCs where the team delivered completely functional Data Lakes and on-demand analytical environments to clients (gov and healthcare). During those engagements, I developed an AWS EMR JupyterHub integration with AWS Cognito in order for analysts to have full access to AWS services (especially AWS Athena) inside their notebooks by default.

Sep 2018 – Apr 2019 · 7 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Teacher assistant for the "EECS 2311 Software Development Project" and "EECS 2030 Advanced Object-Oriented Programming" courses
• Create dedicated material about CI/CD to help students test and deploy their apps
• Restructured the Practises in Enabling Technologies Lab open-source codebase and documentation: https://github.com/PiETLab

Oct 2017 – Aug 2018 · 10 mos · Toronto, ON

• Led the development of an internal game tools team. From a one man operation to 15+ members today.
• Developed a full-featured system that enables versioning and management of game assets, game stores, in-game transactions, physical toys, marketing campaigns, and operations.
• Developed backend jobs and infrastructure to send notifications to more than 3+ million users.

Aug 2017 – Oct 2017 · 2 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Integrated BMOs mobile and web app with Google Analytics
• Create a feature to enable users to view e-statements on both iOS and Android
• Obs: Left this position for an opportunity to create a game-tools team at Prodigy Game

Apr 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Toronto, ON

• Architected and developed a real-time video transcoding service, a portal for video makers, an algorithm to rank and match a company with the best possible "media-maker", a models portal, a public API for clients, and much more.
• Tasked frequently to perform large-scale refactoring on critical sections of the application to increase readability, speed, and efficiency: MongoDB database indexation, database migrations/scaling, password migrations, complete front-end refactoring, etc.
• Took care of the entire platform single-handedly (back-end, front-end, infra and operations) during a CTO transition. Also, documented all systems and transferred learnings to the new CTO.
• Led a team of developers on multiple projects, mentoring and growing engineering. I joined when there were fewer than 10 employees, and left when we had 150+.

May 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Implemented a system that enables professors to publish C language exercises and create test cases to validate student’s answers
• Designed a full-feature online C debugger to help students walk through their code while solving an exercise
• Built a public RESTful API in order to connect the system to other platforms
• Teacher assistant for the “CSC209H: Software Tools and Systems Programming” course in which the system was used
• ACM Paper: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2729094.2754852
• Project Website: https://c-programming.onlinelearning.utoronto.ca/

Jun 2013 – Dec 2013 · 6 mos · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Worked as an external technical consultant at GASMIG as part of their SAP system migration project
• Customized SAP CCS printing module to communicate with the government’s tax collection API and SAP FI
• Implemented a middleware to connect SAP's CCS printing module to SAP ERP

Jun 2010 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Belo Horizonte, MG

• Worked as an external technical consultant at CEMIG as part of their SAP system migration project
• Migrated in-house developed functionalities from SAP CCS EHP5 to EHP6 (ABAP/Java programming)
• Responsible for planning and executing large-scale stress tests on the new platform

May 2008 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Worked closely with CEO Ursula Aleixo on the architecture and development of the first version of Fastdezine.com
• Responsible for supporting third-party companies on the development of the platform (front-end and back-end)