Alessandro Hecht is a seasoned CTO and senior software engineer based in Rio de Janeiro with over 16 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on development. He has led hybrid teams across design, QA, support and full-stack engineering while driving product strategy and converting business needs into scalable technical solutions used by 100+ clients. Technically fluent across Lua, Python, PHP and modern cloud stacks (AWS, GCP, Magalu Cloud, Docker), he orchestrated a strategic migration from Lua to Python, eliminated technical debt and expanded integration/plugin capabilities. Alessandro has built internal developer tooling and replaced commercial workflow systems to improve throughput, implemented LGPD-compliant data controls, and introduced RAG-based generative AI search and chat to elevate platform UX. Pragmatic and product-minded, he combines deep implementation experience with infrastructure and privacy expertise, often shipping bespoke internal systems that quietly unlock team productivity.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
2o Grau Técnico em Processamento de Dados Data Processing, 2o Grau Técnico em Processamento de Dados Data Processing at Centro Educacional Albert Einstein
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