Summary
Dani Araujo is an engineering people manager based in Berlin with over a decade of hands-on and leadership experience building customer-facing products and scalable platforms. He has led cross-functional teams across e-commerce, payments, HR tooling, and collections systems, blending product-oriented management with 30–50% hands-on development in TypeScript, React, Node.js and Kotlin. Known for driving engineering practices—TDD, CI/CD, microfrontends and observability—he has scaled teams across countries and improved delivery through process alignment and clear performance feedback. Dani has a track record of stepping into interim product ownership to align technical work with business goals and of mentoring engineers into technical leadership roles. His background spans native mobile, hybrid apps and full-stack web systems, reflecting an unusual combination of visual arts training and deep technical breadth. Based in Berlin after relocation from Brazil, he brings a pragmatic, feedback-driven approach to shipping reliable, user-focused software.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Technician Information Technology, Systems Technician Information Technology at Colégio Adélia Camargo Corrêa
Bachelor of Visual Arts Visual and Performing Arts, Bachelor of Visual Arts Visual and Performing Arts at UFRGS
Technologist Degree in System Analysis and Development Information Technology, Technologist Degree in System Analysis and Development Information Technology at Fatec Senac RS
English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German