Pedro Las-casas
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Brazil
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Top SchoolPedro Las-casas is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building research-driven, cloud-native systems across Google and Microsoft, currently based in Brazil. With a Ph.D. background in computer science, he bridges cutting-edge research and production engineering—particularly in distributed tracing, sampling, and ML-based observability tools. At Microsoft he worked in Azure Research - Systems, and earlier roles include building data-layer security, observability, and threat detection at Cyral and developing Sifter, a TensorFlow-based trace sampler at Max Planck Institute. He combines deep academic expertise with hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting services on AWS and Google Cloud. Known for turning novel research ideas into practical tooling, he excels at scalable systems that surface meaningful signals from high-volume telemetry.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at PUC MinasDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (20)
consensus10
key-value10
storage10
distributed-systems10
swagger10
etcd10
api10
rest10
azure10
rest-api10
raft10
openapi10
database10
microsoft9
key-value-store9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pedrobragioni/sampling-tracing
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:365 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
pedrobragioni/graph-kernel-experiments
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:626 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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