Summary
Guilherme Froes is an engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on technical experience and 13 years in senior roles building and scaling high-performing, multinational teams. He has led large organizations and complex infrastructure efforts at Google—managing 40+ engineers to run content-safety systems at millions of requests per second—and shaped cloud and platform strategy as a Principal Architect at Google Cloud and ThoughtWorks. Known for prioritizing engineering principles and fundamentals over fashions, he consistently shortens release cycles and improves operational efficiency through team reorganization and pragmatic models. He has deep experience across fintech and consumer platforms (Creditas, XP, Doximity) and a track record of enabling platform self-service, DevOps adoption, and ML-driven solutions that reduce cost and risk. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he combines enterprise-scale delivery expertise with a mentoring mindset, having built capability programs and cultivated technical leadership across chapters and tribes. Currently on sabbatical, he’s likely reflecting on the next opportunity to apply platform-level thinking to mission-critical systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English, Spanish