Felipe Almeida
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Almeida is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience designing and operating mission-critical, high-availability distributed systems, currently working on AWS Control Tower after leading Buy with Prime at Amazon. He combines deep UNIX/Linux sysadmin roots with hands-on software architecture, CI/CD and DevOps practice, and has repeatedly built and led engineering teams from startup CTO roles to principal technical leadership. Felipe’s background spans low-level networking and embedded work to large-scale cloud services—he even contributed chat-state and auto-ping improvements to a widely used WhatsApp library on GitHub. Known for pragmatic troubleshooting and systems thinking, he architects reliable solutions and drives operational excellence across the stack. Fluent in multiple languages and platforms, he has a track record of shipping complex features that span regions and scale.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science (Instituto de Matemática e Estatística), Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science (Instituto de Matemática e Estatística) at USP - Universidade de São PauloTechnician Electronic, Technician Electronic at Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (8)
python10
network-programming10
thread9
testing9
multithreading9
hyper-threading9
threaded9
xmpp8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tgalal/yowsup
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
The WhatsApp lib
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily focused on implementing and testing chat state functionality within the WhatsApp library. This involved creating protocol entities for incoming and outgoing chat states, integrating these entities into the existing stack, and adding corresponding test cases. They also improved the application by immediately writing output data to the socket. Furthermore, they added an auto-ping feature to maintain the connection and close it if there were issues.
whatsapp-botwhatsappwhatsapp-web
awslabs/aws-codepipeline-custom-job-worker
Mar 2017 - Jun 2020
Use this sample to help you develop your own job worker when creating a custom action for AWS CodePipeline. For more information, see Create a Custom Action for a Pipeline. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/how-to-create-custom-action.html
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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