Emerson Loureiro
Staff Engineer at Stripe
Leinster, Ireland
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Top SchoolEmerson Loureiro is a Staff Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, now based in Leinster, Ireland. He has led technical roadmaps and cross-continental team transitions at Amazon Lambda, bootstrapped billing and control-plane teams, and raised the operational bar across multiple high-throughput services. His background spans observability, metrics, billing, and real-time log aggregation, with a consistent emphasis on architecting for reliability and measurable operational improvements. Emerson holds a PhD in Computer Science and combines deep research training with pragmatic engineering—evident from platform work that sped customer batch processing and production optimizations that improved throughput by tens of percent. He excels at coaching engineers, aligning technical decisions with product and business needs, and shipping end-to-end systems that scale. Colleagues would describe him as a technical leader who blends rigorous design thinking with a knack for reducing operational toil.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatics at Universidade Federal de Campina GrandeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University College DublinBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (33)
amazon10
sbt9
sbt-plugin9
amazon-s38
aws8
scala7
api7
rest-api6
rest6
similarity6
tooling6
plugin6
openapi5
search-engine5
simulation5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Irishsmurf/hook
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:36 commits in 1 year 9 months
plugin-frameworkjavajava-pluginplugin
sbt/sbt-s3
Aug 2017 - Apr 2021
sbt-s3 is a simple sbt plugin to manipulate objects on Amazon S3
Contributions:25 commits, 18 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 8 months
amazonsbt-pluginamazon-s3scalasbt
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