Lucas Cavalcante is a DevOps engineer and engineering manager with 20+ years in software engineering, product delivery and technical education, currently leading DevSecOps efforts at Geekie from Ceará, Brazil. He combines hands-on backend and infrastructure expertise (PHP, Node.js, Docker, CI/CD, AWS, Swoole/Hyperf) with proven people leadership—scaling teams, improving diversity, and formalizing onboarding to accelerate impact. At PicPay he stabilized payment microservices to reduce outages and improve card transaction accuracy, while driving a move toward concurrent architectures. He teaches and mentors regularly, bringing classroom experience in game development and startup marketing to help engineers grow. Comfortable spanning product, platform and hiring, he thrives on turning messy, cross-team business requirements into reliable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated studies, Motion and Game Development, Graduated studies, Motion and Game Development at Universidade de Fortaleza
Contributions:33 PRs, 4 pushes, 30 branches in 2 months
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