Summary
Lucas Porto is a tech leader with nearly a decade of hands-on software experience, currently guiding multiple squads at Mercafácil to build a 30+ microservice ecosystem that processes millions of retail events. He combines people management and deep engineering discipline, driving architectural decisions through RFCs and practices like Clean Architecture, DDD and event-driven design. His stack spans Python, Node.js and Go on the backend, Vue/React on the frontend, and data platforms including ClickHouse, BigQuery and Spark on GCP, with production messaging via Kafka/Redpanda. He led the company’s Design System and micro-frontend migration to increase delivery autonomy, and introduced OpenTelemetry-based observability to speed incident diagnosis. Notably, he brings domain experience in geospatial systems and high-performance PWAs from earlier roles, which informs his pragmatic approach to performance and data pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Information Technology, Bachelor of Computer Science Information Technology at IESB
Systems Analysis and Development Technician Information Technology, Systems Analysis and Development Technician Information Technology at IFB - Instituto Federal de Brasília
Portuguese, English, Spanish