Summary
André Kiffer is a seasoned software founder and architect with almost 15 years of experience delivering scalable web applications and leading product engineering in Brazil. As founder of Lixlog and former CTO at Gear Up, he blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership to build teams, establish best practices, and drive architecture that scales. His full-stack toolkit spans PHP, Ruby, Go and Clojure, with Rails and Symfony, and he leverages databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and ElasticSearch, plus frontend React. He has delivered complex marketplace integrations and systems, from Olist’s multi-channel APIs to Solidarium’s fast search and asynchronous processing using Gearman. At MadeiraMadeira he championed an agile engineering culture and introduced Domain-Driven Design to align business domains with software delivery. Based in Maceió, Brazil, he leads Flixlog/Lixlog and continues turning ambitious ideas into reliable, customer-focused software.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese