Summary
Marcelo De Farias is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with over two decades of experience ideating and building software and 11 years in senior engineering roles. Based in Florianópolis, he led development of high-scale test automation at Sencha—designing a Node/Electron-based test platform that runs 400,000 tests per PR with heavy parallelization and Sauce Labs integration. He helped scale CodeStream through acquisition by New Relic and served as a senior engineer at New Relic before founding Vortex Software, combining startup grit with enterprise-grade engineering practices. His background spans full-stack systems, distributed architectures, CI orchestration and developer tooling, rooted in early hands-on work building ISPs, BBSs and custom web systems. Known for blending technical leadership, coaching and pragmatic automation, he often bridges product and infrastructure to ship reliable developer-facing tools.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
English, Spanish, Portuguese