Summary
Luan Motta is a senior full-stack and product-oriented engineer based in San Francisco with nearly a decade of experience building scalable web and mobile features for fintech and SaaS products. He specializes in React, React Native, Node.js/NestJS, Apollo GraphQL, and cloud-native microservices, and has repeatedly led product-driven initiatives to improve onboarding, subscriptions, and internal analytics. At Caplight he pairs behavioral data (Heap) with product strategy to prioritize work that boosts engagement and conversion, reflecting a strong blend of technical ownership and business impact. His background as a co-founder and early engineer includes building high-performance PWAs, CI/CD pipelines, and secure AWS services, showing an entrepreneurial approach to engineering problems. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and DevOps concerns, he also brings hands-on experience with developer tooling and workflow automation that speeds delivery. Collected from diverse teams and roles, his track record reveals a pragmatic engineer who pushes both product metrics and platform quality.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Technology, Bachelor of Computer Science Technology at ULBRA
Mechatronics Technician Engineering, Mechatronics Technician Engineering at FIERGS SENAI - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial
Portuguese, English