Summary
Felipe Plets is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 16 years of experience building and scaling distributed web and mobile platforms, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering at Zensurance in Toronto. He combines hands-on architecture skills—microservices, microfrontends, clean architecture—and deep delivery expertise in SDLC, CI/CD and DORA-driven improvements with a proven ability to lead remote, diverse, cross-functional teams. Felipe has repeatedly driven transformational shifts, including migrations from monoliths to distributed systems, adoption of ephemeral staging environments, and company-wide OKR and incident management practices. His background as a serial founder (Menvia, Pletax) and early developer since 2000 gives him a rare mix of product intuition and technical craft. Multilingual and certified in AWS, Scrum and PMI-ACP, he also mentors emerging engineers and shapes organizational design through team topologies. An avid practitioner of Lean, Design Thinking and developer experience improvements, he’s known for turning complex engineering challenges into measurable business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Information Systems, Bachelor Information Systems at Unisinos
Technical Business Administration and Management General, Technical Business Administration and Management General at Instituto de Educação São José
Portuguese, English, Spanish