Summary
Fernando Chaves is a seasoned software leader based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling backend systems and microservices. He has progressed from full-stack and backend roles to tech lead and engineering manager positions, driving initiatives like breaking monoliths into microservices, launching a pet health insurance product, and reducing churn through customer-facing contract and billing tooling. Fernando combines technical depth in Ruby on Rails, Java/Spring, Kubernetes and relational databases with strong product collaboration, running experiments and usability tests that increased revenue and customer retention. At Stone and Petlove&Co he translated product hypotheses into measurable business outcomes, and his recent role as Especialista em Desenvolvimento signals continued focus on architectural excellence. Notably, he blends pragmatic engineering with process improvements—optimizing deploy pipelines and testing to cut lead time and incidents.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Engenharia de Software, Bacharelado Engenharia de Software at Ampli
English, Spanish