Alex De Lima
Director Of Engineering at iFood
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlex De Lima is a seasoned Director of Engineering with 11 years of leadership experience building and operating large-scale, customer-facing platforms at iFood, where he currently oversees B2C & CRM tech strategy for iFood Pago and previously led the Order lifecycle and core platform teams. He combines hands-on systems and cloud architecture expertise with proven people leadership—standing up and scaling remote, high-performance squads across payments, logistics, anti-fraud and analytics that serve millions of users. Alex has moved between senior engineering and business-focused programs (Stanford Prosus 10x, multiple MBAs), giving him a rare blend of technical depth and strategic product sensibility. His background includes rapid-growth roles as VP Engineering and hands-on contributions in DevOps, WebRTC and platform engineering, reflecting a comfort with both legacy enterprise systems and modern cloud-native stacks. Known for translating complex distributed systems into reliable operational products, he also prioritizes societal impact in his work.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Strategic Business Management, Strategic Business Management at FIA - Fundação Instituto de AdministraçãoProsus 10x Program Business, Prosus 10x Program Business at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMBA Business Management, MBA Business Management at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasMSc Student (unfinished) Distributed Systems Security, MSc Student (unfinished) Distributed Systems Security at Universidade Estadual de CampinasBSc Computer Engineer, BSc Computer Engineer at Universidade Federal de ItajubáStrategic Business Leadership, Strategic Business Leadership at The Ohio State University
Portuguese, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (35)
google-keep10
router9
mediasoup9
conferencing8
react8
scalable8
infrastructure8
linux8
windows8
webrtc8
electron7
video-conferencing7
jitsi7
sfu7
cli7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
trustlix/awesome-copycats
Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
themesdark-theme
trustlix/prezto
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
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