Summary
Lucas Perez is a Lead Software Engineer based in Chicago with nine years of hands-on experience building and scaling mission-critical systems, most notably leading the $1.6B Walgreens micro-fulfillment platform from 0 to production and supporting over a million daily transactions. He blends full-stack engineering, DevOps collaboration, and strong code-quality discipline—mentoring teams, enforcing SOLID principles, and bridging gaps across RunOps, Security, Product, and Directors. His background ranges from cloud and big-data stacks (Azure, Hadoop, Hive) to backend services in Java/Spring Boot and rapid Python automation, and he has a track record of delivering fast, bug-free releases during high-pressure efforts like the COVID vaccine rollout. Comfortable both as a solo contributor and a tech lead managing onshore/offshore teams, he also brings a practical systems mindset from prior roles in game QA, web entrepreneurship, and university research projects.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Loyola University Chicago
Bachelor's in Letters, Bachelor's in Letters at Universidade Estadual de Londrina
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French