Summary
Andre Simao is a Principal Engineer based in Toronto with 11 years of experience designing and shipping resilient, cloud-native systems for energy and enterprise domains. Grounded in a Computer Engineering degree from ITA and a lifelong interest in logic and mathematics, he excels at algorithmic problem solving and pragmatic architecture decisions. At Peak Power he built intelligent, self-healing battery dispatch systems and led cross-team architectural strategy, improving scalability, observability, and CI/CD workflows. His background includes modernizing legacy stacks, centralizing time-series data, and implementing robust testing and deployment pipelines on AWS and GCP. Known as a proactive communicator and mentor, he balances long-term technical hygiene with hands-on delivery and outage leadership. Outside day-to-day delivery he brings a rare combination of formal systems thinking and practical engineering that surfaces efficient, mathematically informed solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Escola Preparatória de Cadetes do Ar - EPCAR