Summary
Cicero Monteiro is a senior software engineer and engineering manager from Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, with 14 years building full-stack PHP solutions and leading development teams across startups and service companies. He has repeatedly combined hands-on Laravel ecosystem engineering with leadership roles—serving as Head of Development, Head of Engineering, and Technical Lead—delivering both product features and developer-facing process improvements. Comfortable owning front-end, back-end and DevOps decisions, he’s led client-facing engagements and internal platform work at companies like BairesDev, Social Snowball and Refersion. Cicero’s career blends entrepreneurial experience (CTO and co-founder roles) with mentorship and teaching early in his career, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliable deliveries and team enablement. Notably, he continues to operate at the intersection of implementation and strategy, shipping production systems while scaling engineering practices.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte