Felipe Kautzmann
Back End Engineer at PayPal
Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Kautzmann is a seasoned Back End Engineer based in Brazil with over a decade of professional experience building scalable payment and fintech systems. He has held leadership roles from hands-on CTO to team lead, architecting distributed systems and growing platforms that served 30,000+ customers across LATAM. Felipe’s recent work spans blockchain and crypto at PayPal’s BCDC team and building a stablecoin-powered cross-border payment solution for Africa, showing a rare mix of compliance-minded product design and low-level engineering. He is comfortable across the full stack—Node.js, Java Spring Boot, React, Go, AWS—and has repeatedly rebuilt infrastructures for reliability and scale. Known for owning both strategy and execution, he often serves as the sole developer driving product architecture and integrations with payment gateways and banking APIs. His background in mission-critical finance systems and migrations gives him a pragmatic edge when turning complex regulatory and operational constraints into production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Business Diploma, Business, Business Diploma, Business at EDENZ CollegesTechnical Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Technical Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Alcides Maya Escola Técnica
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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87answers
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Github Skills (128)
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linux10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
felipekm/felipekm
Jul 2020 - Oct 2025
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
plingbr/pling-ui-npm-package
Mar 2016 - Dec 2019
Pling Web Framework
Contributions:61 releases, 7 PRs, 91 pushes in 3 years 10 months
web-framework
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