Summary
Luiz Ferreira is a pragmatic software developer with nine years of experience building resilient, customer-focused systems across Java, Golang and Python. Currently at Mercado Livre, he has delivered payment features across countries, migrated legacy services to a microservices Java/Spring stack, and built a multimodal embeddings API using FastAPI, Go, OpenAI and LangChain to power conversational search. He combines backend systems thinking with frontend experience (React/TypeScript) and solid observability practices (Kibana, DataDog, New Relic) to keep high SLAs in production. Luiz also contributes to product strategy through data analysis with BigQuery and Pandas and accelerates team onboarding via a structured mentoring program. Based in Paraíba, Brazil, he enjoys continuous learning and brings a pragmatic blend of engineering rigor and curiosity to tackle evolving business needs.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor in Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Portuguese, English, Spanish