Augusto Uehara
Engineering Manager - Motor Plarform Change Lead at Direct Line Group
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAugusto Uehara is an experienced engineering manager in London with over two decades of software engineering leadership, currently driving multi-team delivery at Direct Line Group across major insurance brands. He combines deep technical expertise in distributed, high-availability systems with hands-on experience building pricing and underwriting engines that serve hundreds of thousands of requests per day with sub-150ms latency. A pragmatic coach and recruiter, he has grown teams from small pods to 20+ engineers and established a Software Engineering Community of Practice to raise standards across the organisation. His background spans finance, media and utilities, and includes cost-optimising large computational grids and migrating monoliths to cloud-native microservices. Known for measurable improvements—like reducing processing times from hours to minutes and cutting cloud costs by more than half—he thrives in high-pressure, cross-continental delivery environments.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Technician, Mechanical Engineering, Technician, Mechanical Engineering at Liceu de Artes e Oficios de Sao PauloBachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration at Faculdades Radial
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
multiline9
audio8
aws7
splines6
elasticsearch-client6
smoothing6
time-series6
terraform6
terraform-provider6
r6
elasticsearch-plugin5
pmml4
api3
hadoop3
elasticsearch3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chaos-generator/gumtree-address-book
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
chaos-generator/qmetrics
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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