Hugo Grochau
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Grochau is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing fintech and marketplace products. He combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, having hired and led large cross-functional teams through migrations to microservices and periods of rapid growth at Klarna and Mutual Fintech. At Klarna he drove payments reliability and conversion improvements via data-driven A/B experimentation and operational tooling; earlier he grew a Brazilian P2P lending platform from zero to 500k users as CTO/Chief Product Officer. Now at Meta, he focuses on reducing complexity and improving delivery—what he calls “professional entropy decreaser”—bringing pragmatic architecture and process improvements to high-scale systems. He’s comfortable across the stack (React/React Native, Node.js, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL) and has a track record of hiring rapidly while instituting sustainable engineering practices.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Github Skills (71)
testing10
ruby10
automation10
javascript10
android-apps10
android10
ios10
react-native10
expo10
facebook10
frontend10
react10
mbaas9
framework79
microfrontend9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hugogrochau/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:80 pushes in 5 years 3 months
hugogrochau/app-generator
Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
React native application generator from a declarative configuration file
Contributions:61 commits, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 3 months
reactconfiguration-filereact-nativedeclarativegenerator
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