Summary
Paulo Pacitti is a Staff Software Engineer based in São Paulo with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable, large-scale systems across frontend, backend, AI, and cryptography. He has driven production impact at iFood—optimizing logistics for millions of daily orders and creating an LLM-powered auto-approval system that sped up company-wide code reviews while remaining highly cost‑efficient. His background spans high-throughput services at Amazon, UI and backend work at Meta Reality Labs, and applied cryptography research at UNICAMP, giving him a rare mix of product, infrastructure, and research expertise. A pragmatic generalist who seeks hard problems, he designs solutions that balance performance, cost, and developer experience. Known for embedding ML into production flows (chatbots, fraud prevention, and inference optimization), he also champions tooling that scales engineering productivity. Outside work he blends technical curiosity with human-centered values, reflected in his GitHub bio: “I love God, humans and computers.”
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Technical Degree Computer Science, Technical Degree Computer Science at Colégio Técnico de Campinas - Unicamp
Portuguese, English