Summary
Luiz Neves is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead based in Chicago with over a decade in tech and nine years focused on engineering, specializing in modern JavaScript stacks (React, TypeScript, Node, Vue) and component-driven design. He has led cross-functional teams and product pods to deliver data-centric applications, most recently architecting an LLM-driven text-to-SQL and interactive charting workflow and reshaping CI/CD to enable true end-to-end testing. Luiz pairs hands-on full‑stack development with product management experience, championing internal AI tools and frameworks to accelerate developer productivity. His background includes scaling review processes for LLM training at Scale AI and contributing to large platforms at Shopify and Chevron, showing comfort across startups and enterprise contexts. Notably, he blends statistical and data-discovery experience from earlier consulting work with current applied LLM engineering, making him adept at turning complex data requirements into practical, production-ready interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese World Economics Brazilian Culture, Portuguese World Economics Brazilian Culture at Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Portuguese, Portuguese at Universidade Federal do Paraná
Bachelor's Degree Industrial Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Industrial Engineering at The Ohio State University
Portuguese, English