Felipe Alcantara
Author at Polymath Engineer Weekly
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolFelipe Alcantara is a software engineer and author based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience designing and operating distributed systems, developer platforms, and production ML courses. He has led engineering teams of 50+ people and launched core products and integrations at Gorila, while earlier roles involved decoupling legacy systems, building cloud-native pipelines, and improving observability across high-traffic services. As a co-founder he built KYC workflow tooling and pitched to VCs, and as a visiting professor he taught Machine Learning in Production and Distributed Systems. Felipe publishes the Polymath Engineer Weekly newsletter and maintains a blog and side projects that reflect a long-standing commitment to GNU/Linux, programming languages, and free software. He combines hands-on implementation (Go, Python, Kubernetes) with strategic product and migration decisions that reduced costs and operational risk. Beyond typical leadership duties, he’s known for fostering design-document culture and measurable improvements in system quality and onboarding.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of São Paulo
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
felipemocruha/sistemas-distribuidos
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
felipemocruha/my-conf
Feb 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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