Summary
Fernando De Souza is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling backend systems and cross-functional teams, currently serving as Director of Engineering at HelloFresh in Geneva. He has a strong track record driving architecture reviews, microservices extractions, and cloud migrations (AWS, Kubernetes) across fast-growing consumer platforms like Delivery Hero and foodpanda. Skilled in Java/Kotlin, Node.js/TypeScript and distributed messaging (SNS/SQS), he pairs hands-on technical depth with people development—mentoring engineers into management and designing team topologies for hypergrowth. Notably, he established on-call, monitoring and high-availability practices and led POS and large-chain integrations for major brands. His career began in media and enterprise systems, giving him a pragmatic blend of low-latency streaming, search (ElasticSearch) and large-scale web service experience.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese, German