Summary
Levi Costa is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across startups and large retailers from São Paulo. He blends strong object-oriented design, SOLID principles, and clean/hexagonal architecture with practical expertise in microservices, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes to deliver resilient, high-throughput applications. As founder & CTO of Alfaero while holding engineering roles at PicPay and Superlógica, he balances technical leadership with implementation—owning integrations, DLQ/retry strategies, and performance-focused distributed systems. His background includes maintaining legacy platforms (Perl, PHP) and modernizing them using TDD, CI/CD, and DevOps practices, which gives him a pragmatic approach to refactoring and incremental improvement. Comfortable across backend, mobile, and DevOps areas, he often operates as the bridge between product needs and robust engineering solutions. He’s known for sharing knowledge, continuously learning, and bringing entrepreneurial drive to production-grade software problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University