Summary
Filipe Portes is a senior software engineer and engineering manager with 14+ years of hands-on experience and over six years leading teams across fintech and consumer platforms. He specializes in backend systems on the Java/Kotlin stack, with practical exposure to Python, Scala, and Ruby on Rails, and a strong track record in microservices, cloud-native architectures, and CI/CD migrations. Filipe has built and scaled cross-functional teams at companies like Trade Republic, Shopify and Wolt, delivering production-critical features such as crypto settlement automation and AI-driven support tools. He combines technical ownership—extracting legacy functionality into scalable services and migrating CI/CD to cloud-hosted pipelines—with a focus on engineering culture, hiring and career development. Based in Berlin, he thrives on turning complex, regulated domains into reliable, scalable products and quietly excels at bridging product, data and infrastructure to run high-velocity experiments.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
graduate, Computing science, graduate, Computing science at Universidade Paulista
English