Summary
Augusto Lessa is a software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, high-throughput systems across startups and hyperscalers. With a Computational Mathematics degree from UFMG, he has tackled TB-scale data pipelines in influencer marketing, engineered native AWS solutions at Amazon handling 600+ TPS, and now contributes to search ranking ML challenges at Google. He’s comfortable across the stack—PySpark, Java/Kotlin, Node.js, EmberJS, and Elasticsearch—with a track record of reducing operational burden and shipping high-impact features under tight deadlines. Augusto has a competitive programming background, co-founded an initiative to teach C programming, and is routinely recognized for improving reliability and reducing bugs. Practical and curious, he pairs rigorous testing and on-call experience with a habit of finding non-obvious bugs that affect real customers. He’s driven by continuous learning and a taste for problem-solving that spans systems, data, and product.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computational Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Computational Mathematics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese