Summary
Lucas Pereira is a software engineer based in São Paulo with 9 years of experience building performant, scalable systems across finance, startups, and academia. He has driven high-impact projects at BTG Pactual—designing a high-performance C# charting engine and multiple trading tools—and now focuses on restructuring critical platform systems at Cerc. Comfortable across full-stack domains, Lucas has shipped backend services, frontend tools, mobile apps, and WebAssembly image-processing prototypes, and he brings hands-on expertise in performance optimization and maintainability. He has led teams and student organizations at USPCodeLab, organizing hackathons and mentoring developers while bridging research and product delivery. Academically grounded with a Computer Science degree from USP and a master's from TU Darmstadt, he also maintains a niche interest in FPGAs and hardware security that informs his pragmatic systems thinking.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of São Paulo
English, Portuguese