Luiz Pereira
Member Of Technical Staff at Cohere
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLuiz Pereira is a full-stack software engineer with eight years of experience who blends deep finance and product expertise with hands-on engineering across Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Elixir and JVM stacks. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Cohere, he has driven AI-focused platform work and previously led performance, streaming and vectorDB/RAG initiatives as a senior engineer on Firework’s Ava video-AI product. He’s founded and built products end-to-end (Bill Labs, Menutrip) and delivered high-scale financial systems at Square and Coursera, bringing domain knowledge in reconciliation and payments. Known for pragmatic optimizations—parallelism, threading and low-latency architectures—he also mentors engineers and establishes coding standards to move teams faster. Based in Oakville, Canada, he pairs an MBA in finance with a background in economics, making him equally fluent in technical implementation and business-driven product tradeoffs.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Finance General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Finance General at Alliance Manchester Business SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
job-search10
linkedin9
ads9
ruby-on-rails8
rails8
javascript7
sudoku6
placement5
crossword5
solver4
rails-api3
ruby3
redux2
jwt-authentication2
json-api2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
luizfper/collections_practice_vol_2-online-web-prework
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:252 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
luiz-pereira/JobSniperJS
Jun 2019 - Aug 2020
Provides users with a centralized application for job search, with no ads and no sponsored job postings. Very precise and minimalist with a powerful back-end.
Contributions:89 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
ruby-on-railsjobsearchadsjobseekerrails
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