Summary
Luan Cestari is a Staff Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 12 years of experience building and leading large-scale, high-throughput fintech and cloud-native systems. He combines hands-on development of event-driven microservices (Kotlin/Java, gRPC, Kafka) with cross-team technical leadership, driving architecture, observability, and operational excellence for systems processing over €1B monthly. Luan is adept at bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, coaching teams on agile practices and test-driven delivery while also reducing costs through pragmatic infrastructure choices on AWS and Kubernetes. His background spans enterprise integrations, open-source-era middleware and support roles at Red Hat through to product-focused engineering at Amazon, Trustly and PPRO, giving him a rare mix of customer-facing troubleshooting and strategic design. A self-taught leader with strong interpersonal skills, he often surfaces subtle operational risks early and institutionalizes fixes via monitoring and automation. Outside of core responsibilities he has a track record of mentoring engineers and promoting reusable global solutions across organizations.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at FEI
Escola Técnica Estadual Lauro Gomes - ETE LG
English, Spanish