Lucas Cunha is a tech manager and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed, event-driven systems across startups, digital agencies and high-growth companies like Nubank. He progressed from full‑stack and Rails roots to specialize in backend microservices, messaging and observability, and now leads teams of up to a dozen engineers while aligning engineering work with business growth. Known for mentoring engineers and instituting data-driven processes, he couples hands-on architectural leadership with practical metrics to prioritize reliability and technical debt. Based in São Paulo, he brings a track record of shipping credit-card acquisition and high-throughput flows in Clojure and other stacks, and a pragmatic product mindset honed by founding an MVP for a creator-focused SaaS.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Technician Software Development, Technician Software Development at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do RN
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 11 months
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