Lucas Amaral
Director Of Engineering at Shippo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Amaral is a Director of Engineering based in San Francisco with 9+ years of hands-on experience building high-scale web and API systems and leading teams of 5–45+ through seed-to-unicorn growth. At Shippo he moved between IC and leadership roles, delivering zero-to-one carrier integrations (including USPS) and a carrier integration framework that cut integration costs fourfold while enabling a strategic Shopify partnership in Europe. He combines deep backend expertise—Python, distributed systems, PostgreSQL/Aurora, microservices and REST APIs—with product-focused delivery, having redesigned critical rate-and-tracking systems for 20x faster responses. Comfortable on the critical path, he hires and mentors engineering managers, scales teams and owns multi-million dollar budgets to ship high-impact, reliable systems. Notably, his work often targets operational levers—reducing cost, improving uptime and data quality—to turn technical projects into measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (15)
dog5
online-game5
planning5
angular-app5
skeleton4
react4
firebase4
react-native3
javascript3
angular2
wrapper2
hapi2
lob2
api1
nodejs1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
amaralbros/OnlineArena
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 13 PRs, 52 pushes in 4 months
javascriptonline-gamegame
lvamaral/Playtime
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:96 commits, 63 PRs, 97 pushes in 19 days
reactbuilt-with-reactreact-nativefirebaseaims
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