Summary
Pedro Lira is a software engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems across fintech, marketplace, and real-time communications. He has worked at companies from Nubank and Microsoft to OLX and startups, designing high-throughput services, append-only data pipelines, and AI-driven automation for collections. Comfortable with functional languages (Clojure, Scala) and systems-level work (Java, C/C++), he blends rigorous applied-math training with practical engineering to tackle performance-sensitive and data-intensive problems. Notably, he helped power real-time meeting backends and built an AI collections system, demonstrating a knack for bringing research-level ideas into production. Based in Alagoas, Brazil, Pedro combines a broad tech stack with a persistent focus on reliability, observability, and pragmatic system design.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Master's degree Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Applied Mathematics at National Laboratory for Scientific Computing
Portuguese, English, c/c++, clojure, python, java