Lucas Amaral
Engineering Manager at FREE NOW
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorLucas Amaral is an Engineering Manager based in Hamburg with nine years of hands-on experience leading mobile and backend teams across mobility and fintech products. Currently at FREE NOW, he combines strong Android expertise (Kotlin, MVVM, CI) with prior tech lead roles where he drove architecture, delivery processes, and OKR-aligned roadmaps for apps used by over a million users. He has repeatedly bridged product and engineering—designing mobile architectures from scratch, mentoring teams, and defining build/delivery pipelines to raise quality and speed. Comfortable across stacks (Python, Go, NodeJS, SQL/NoSQL) and early-stage product work, he brings entrepreneurial instincts from founding a software company to scaling production systems at larger organizations. Notably, his career includes spotting security issues proactively and reducing operational costs through practical engineering fixes, underscoring a bias for impact beyond code.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
protuguese, English, German
Github Skills (67)
maven-plugin10
kotlin-library10
gradle-plugin10
intellij-plugin10
mozilla10
kotlin10
passwords10
divider9
firefox9
webassembly9
programming-language9
security9
itemdecoration9
android9
compiler8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
diegolucasb/lockbox-android
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Firefox Lockbox companion app for Android
Contributions:25 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
firefoxandroidlockboxcompanioncompanion-app
diegolucasb/AudioPlayerView
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:7 releases, 15 pushes, 7 tags in 9 months
playbackandroidandroid-viewaudio
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