Marcelo Dias
Software Engineer at Milestone Systems
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcelo Dias is a versatile software engineer and technical founder with 16+ years building embedded systems, cloud services, and scalable backends across IoT, telecom and e‑commerce domains. He combines deep low‑level experience in C and device drivers with long practical expertise in Python, Go, Postgres and AWS, shipping production systems from the first line of code to customer-facing platforms. Marcelo has led small engineering teams and served as CTO/Head of Technology for multiple climate and fintech initiatives, driving architecture, hiring, and early customer acquisition. Notable projects include large-scale IoT deployments (people and vehicle trackers), a high-throughput messaging architecture that sent 100k+ notifications per event economically, and critical infrastructure work at CDNs and DNS services. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he brings a pragmatic generalist mindset—comfortable toggling between firmware, network protocols and cloud orchestration—to deliver reliable, cost‑efficient solutions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Electrical Engineering, MSc Electrical Engineering at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
English, Spanish, German, Portuguese
Github Skills (74)
waf9
command-line-interface9
amazon-web-services9
aws9
amazon9
aws-cli9
cli8
rio8
que8
maintenance8
lambda7
certificate-generation7
aws-sdk7
nginx7
high-performance6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
marcelomd/.dotfiles
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
aziontech/naxsi
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 33 pushes, 9 branches in 5 months
nginxperformancenaxsiwafrules
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