Alexandre Manduca is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years building fintech products and distributed systems, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Firstcard in Seattle. He combines hands-on software development experience from Amazon and Principal-level roles with strategic leadership, scaling teams and systems through rapid growth and operational demands. His background spans Java EE architecture to modern cloud-native practices, underpinned by a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the Universidade de São Paulo. Alexandre’s career shows a steady progression from senior engineer and technical lead roles in Brazil to senior SDE work at Amazon and now executive engineering leadership in the U.S. He brings a practical emphasis on reliability and payment-domain expertise, and is comfortable bridging deep technical decisions with business-facing priorities. Fluent in multiple technical stacks and having worked across continents, he’s known for turning complex distributed challenges into maintainable, production-grade solutions.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
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