Summary
Lucas Souza is a senior software engineer based in Lisbon with 11 years of hands-on full‑stack experience building performant, secure web systems and leading cross-functional teams. He blends architecture and coding fluency—having shipped frontend and backend features, defined architectures, and improved system performance with pragmatic choices like replacing SQL-based queues with RabbitMQ. Equally at home mentoring engineers and aligning product and customer needs, he focuses on sustaining team momentum and organic growth rather than short-lived sprints. His background spans diverse stacks (React, Angular, NestJS, Node, PHP, Java, C++ and more), and he has repeatedly driven operational improvements in areas from SMTP servers to state management. Notably, he pairs technical depth with teaching experience as a web development coach, bringing clarity and pedagogy to complex engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience