Summary
Lucas Vieira is a software engineering manager with 15+ years of cross-industry experience, currently leading engineering and architecture at SomaDetect from Calgary. He blends hands-on expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native AWS infrastructure, and ML platform operations with a pragmatic leadership style that emphasizes mentorship, hiring, and measurable delivery. Lucas has modernized platforms through migrations to Azure and CI/CD automation, and routinely bridges product, DevOps, and customer-facing teams to smooth integrations and escalations. Comfortable across Python, Java/Kotlin, .NET and full-stack JS, he pairs clean-architecture thinking with security-conscious practices (OWASP, NDepend) to balance speed and resilience. A former electrical engineer who built engineering-integrated CAD/CAE tools early in his career, he brings a systems-level view that helps avoid rework and drive scalable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineerging, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineerging at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Certificate in Management Essentials, Certificate in Management Essentials at Harvard Business School Online
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Portuguese, English