Summary
Pedro Sturmer is a Senior Software Engineer from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms at scale. He has deep expertise in backend development (Go, Ruby), Kubernetes (EKS), AWS multi-account management, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Kustomize), having supported high-throughput services and developer platforms at Mercado Livre and iFood. At Mercado Livre he maintained an internal service handling over 170k calls per minute and managed tooling used by 8,000+ developers, underscoring his focus on reliability, performance, and developer experience. More recently he joined Vanilla after contributing to core storage platform work (Postgres, Kafka) and observability improvements with DataDog. Comfortable spanning code, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines, he pairs hands-on engineering with pragmatic architecture changes that measurably improve stability and deployment velocity. Outside core duties he blends full-stack experience from earlier roles, bringing a product-minded approach to platform engineering.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Engenharia de Software, Bacharelado Engenharia de Software at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
English, Portuguese, Spanish