Summary
Marcelo Schmidt is a Head of Tech and seasoned engineering leader with over 14 years of hands-on experience and more than a decade leading high-performing teams at the intersection of product, business strategy and engineering. He has driven multimillion-dollar operational savings and rapid revenue wins—delivering MVPs in weeks that translated into immediate cost reductions and unexpected product revenue. Comfortable in both greenfield and legacy modernization contexts, Marcelo combines pragmatic architecture (monorepos, Kubernetes, Clean Architecture) with metrics-driven delivery using DORA and SPACE. He is also a dedicated mentor, advising a 1,000+ member community and coaching dozens of engineers on both technical architecture and people leadership. Based in Brazil, he blends deep technical craft with proven stakeholder influence, and often pairs rapid prototyping with measurable business impact.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engenharia de Controle e Automação Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Engenharia de Controle e Automação Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Universidade do Vale do Taquari - Univates
Licenciatura em Matemática Mathematics, Licenciatura em Matemática Mathematics at Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul
Bacharelado em Administração Information Technology, Bacharelado em Administração Information Technology at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos)
English, Spanish, German, Portuguese