Summary
Felipe Lopes is a seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling web platforms across Brazil, currently leading remote teams at MerchFlow and serving as CTO for EventsLab. He combines hands-on engineering (Node.js, React, Kubernetes, microservices) with product and people leadership, having guided migrations from monoliths to microservices and run high-traffic events platforms supporting 50k+ visitors. Felipe has founded and shipped award-winning products (Product Hunt #1) and led growth-focused squads at major fintech Creditas, bringing a pragmatic blend of delivery metrics, incident-aware operations, and roadmap ownership. Based in São Paulo and steeped in remote team management, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts from a Berkeley entrepreneurship stint with deep technical craftsmanship and a dry sense of humor about the two hard problems in CS: caching and naming.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree Systems of Information, Bachelor's degree Systems of Information at Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes
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English