Lucas Costa is a Staff Software Engineer at Course Hero in Vancouver with 11 years of experience delivering scalable, high-quality software. He emphasizes readability, robust testing, and best-practices, while maintaining a sharp business focus and clear communication. His career spans leadership and hands-on roles across fintech, digital advertising, and retail tech, including co-founding Sugar Ads and steering backend systems for large-scale campaigns. He has experience migrating legacy systems and integrating complex platforms, such as moving Canal Rural away from a vendor-locked CMS and building automated Facebook Ads workflows at Magazine Luiza. Earlier roles include building back-end and API infrastructure for BitcoinTrade’s exchange, as well as contributing to serverless optimization platforms and ad tech at Gravity4 and EzLike. He holds a CS degree from Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto and a business management technician credential, reflecting a rare blend of technical depth and strategic leadership.
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