Felipe Fontoura
Senior Backend & AI Engineer at SmartHub
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolFelipe Fontoura is a Senior Backend & AI Engineer based in São Paulo with 15 years building production systems for enterprise and high-throughput consumer platforms. He designs scalable backend architectures and end-to-end AI integrations—currently shipping legal-document classification, structured PDF extraction, and automated summaries in production using Claude and Gemini APIs. Felipe has led global teams and mission-critical systems (payments and booking platforms serving millions annually) and reduced manual processing by 97% through 15 AI-powered automation workflows combining n8n and LLMs. As a technical educator and creator with 80k+ YouTube subscribers, he developed Spec-Driven Development for AI-assisted coding and trained 400+ professionals in prompt engineering and AI-augmented workflows. His background spans embedded Linux kernel work and aerospace data systems, giving him uncommon depth from hardware drivers to cloud-native microservices. He blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic teaching, often turning messy specifications into reproducible, AI-assisted production code.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (43)
creative-commons8
script8
instagram8
laravel7
xml6
csv6
audio6
nodejs6
api6
python6
selenium6
redis6
image6
whatsapp5
automation5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
felipefontoura/dotfiles
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:100 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
DevSamurai/cra-template-basic
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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