Fernando Luz
Engineering Lead at AUTODOC
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Luz is an engineering leader with 16+ years of hands-on software development and a decade of management experience, currently leading the Search & Discovery microservices migration at AUTODOC. He combines deep technical chops in Go, Kafka, C++ and HPC with a PhD-level foundation from USP, having shipped complex systems from maritime simulators to contact-center banking integrations. As an engineering manager he coaches teams, instituted QA and Agile best practices, and scaled delivery across cross-functional units while maintaining strong emphasis on code quality, testing and observability. Notably, he has driven performance-driven refactors (e.g., simulator framerate and rendering optimizations) and led QA and team-building efforts that turned new projects into production releases within tight timelines. Based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, he blends research-grade rigor with pragmatic product delivery and a passion for knowledge sharing.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (12)
database9
postgresql9
serverless9
rust9
autoscaling9
storage9
neon8
cosmos7
communication-protocol6
blockchain5
golang3
cosmos-sdk2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fluz/fluz.github.io
Sep 2020 - Oct 2023
Web page with my projects
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 1 month
my-projectsweb-page
fluz/cv
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Curriculum Vitae of Fernando Luz. (Adapted from Leandro Penz - cv.lpenz.org)
Contributions:108 commits, 26 PRs, 114 pushes in 2 years 4 months
vitaecurriculumcurriculum-vitaeadapted
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