Summary
Carlos Lapao is a Solutions Architect and developer advocate with over a decade of hands-on experience building multithreaded systems, cloud-native architectures, and developer tooling. At Parallels he shapes virtualization and developer productivity initiatives, speaking at major events like Microsoft Build 2024 and growing a 1,000+ engineer community while earning MVP recognition. He combines startup grit as a co-founder of BabyReady Finance with enterprise engineering pedigree from roles at Ivanti and payments firms, delivering cost reductions, resilient cloud platforms, and stronger security postures. A pragmatic polyglot focused on Go, Kubernetes, Azure, and .NET, he actively contributes to open source projects and experiments with new languages to create reusable developer tools. Based in Crawley, England, he balances technical leadership with evangelism and is open to advisory work around developer experience and virtualization strategy. Colleagues describe him as the kind of architect who still enjoys shipping code and mentoring engineers through complex system design.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science (General) Computer Engeniering, Computer Science (General) Computer Engeniering at Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre
Portuguese, Spanish