Summary
Fernando Lira is a Software Technical Leader based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience building scalable, high-performance web and e-commerce integrations. He currently leads backend and frontend teams at Mercado Livre, focusing on seamless plugin integrations (WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, Shopify, TiendaNube, Salesforce, VTEX) with Mercado Pago. Fernando is a hands-on polyglot developer comfortable across PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, MySQL, Redis/Memcached and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Fury), combining architecture, automation and operational tuning. His background spans startups to enterprise, from containerized microservices to legacy refactoring and payment/marketplace integrations, giving him deep product-to-infrastructure empathy. He also brings community-facing energy—ex-podcaster and active GitHub contributor—to translate technical complexity into accessible solutions. Colleagues value his blend of pragmatic engineering, cross-platform integration expertise and proven leadership in delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel, Bacharel at Universidade Bandeirante de São Paulo
Pós Graduação, Pós Graduação at Senac São Paulo
Spanish, English