Summary
Iago Prates is a senior backend engineer with over a decade of software experience and more than eight years focused on building scalable, maintainable end-to-end systems using Node.js, Express, MongoDB and modern front-end tools like React and Redux. He has delivered high-impact solutions across industries—ecommerce, fintech, retail, and consulting—leading migrations to microservices on AWS that improved efficiency and reduced incidents. At companies from Pampered Chef to Bright Data he revived legacy systems, improved developer workflows with linting and git hooks, and built user-facing products that increased conversion and customer satisfaction. As an interview engineer at Karat he’s evaluated hundreds of candidates, boosting hiring efficiency while staying hands-on with code and architecture. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he combines a pragmatic product focus with mentorship experience from running study groups and hiring panels, making him as effective in team-building as in technical rescue missions. A detail that often surprises peers: he’s repeatedly shipped from-scratch commerce platforms that scaled to seven-figure revenue within months.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Hack Reactor
Marista de Brasília
Incomplete Bachelor Computer Engineering, Incomplete Bachelor Computer Engineering at Universidade de Brasília
English, Portuguese, Spanish