Luiz Filho

Mentored software engineering professionals as a Topmate.io mentor (top 1% globally and top 100 in Canada).

Led the AI engineering transformation, improving adoption, fluency, productivity, while maintaining quality and stability. Delivered enterprise growth initiatives and organizational process improvements that increased accountability and hiring throughput.

At Amazon Payments, led end-to-end payments integration for Amazon Turkey, and drove early PSD2 adoption for European market compliance. At AWS Route 53, built and grew a team from scratch, improved operational efficiency and usability across multiple products, and delivered global product launches.

Led frontend team agile ceremonies and backlog prioritization as Frontend team lead, partnering with UK headquarters management. As a senior frontend engineer, refactored a legacy jQuery codebase, improving bundle size and addressing security vulnerabilities while enabling new features.

Directed an engineering transformation toward modern DevOps and ChatOps practices, including Git, SemVer, CI pipelines, live monitoring, and automated release management. Drove process improvement, upskilling, and an internal innovation program with tech talks and experimentation.

Collaborated with the X-Team CTO on researching, planning, and developing the next phase of X-Labs and other internal projects, including work involving IndexedDB.

Provided software engineering and consultancy services across multiple clients, including high-level architecture for migrating a desktop application to a web platform and guidance on web development best practices and agile methodologies.

Worked on Brand Analytics and defined conventions for frontend development, including writing codemods to refactor thousands of files across teams to reduce diff size and review time.

Led mobile responsiveness and performance optimization initiatives while maintaining time-to-market velocity, reducing network calls and improving UX on mobile devices. Owned frontend strategy, conventions, quality, performance improvements, and training for new team members.

Built and maintained a Java full-stack Human Capital Management (HCM) system, supporting payroll and features for 200k+ people. Improved performance and usability/accessibility with page load reductions and faster time-to-action.

Developed CRUD applications and conducted programmatic image processing work at Interagi, and built backend applications for the public law sector at DR Sistemas.

Earned an MBA focused on Business Process Management at IT Management Institute (IGTI).

Completed a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering at the Federal University of Goiás.

Completed coursework as a Visiting Student in Computer Science at Saint Mary's University.