Summary
Donato Azevedo is a Sr. R&D Solutions Architect at AWS in São Paulo with 11 years of experience building scalable, resilient systems and prototyping customer-facing solutions. His background spans software engineering and solutions architecture roles at Amazon/AWS, plus leadership experience delivering full-stack and IoT projects at firms like Facta Tecnologia and Pluga. He combines hands-on firmware and embedded programming knowledge from a mechatronics and robotics engineering degree with cloud-native patterns, DevOps culture, and AI/ML integration. Known for turning prototypes into production-ready architectures, he focuses on systems resiliency and highly scalable applications that meet real customer needs. Donato’s career path reflects a pragmatic engineer who moves fluidly between low-level embedded concerns and large distributed cloud systems. He brings a rare blend of commercial management experience and deep technical craft to complex R&D initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais