Renan Peixoto
Head Of Engineering at Torre
São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRenan Peixoto is a Head of Engineering based in São Carlos, Brazil, with nine years of hands-on experience progressing from front-end product design and research roles into technical leadership at Torre. He blends product-minded engineering—rooted in HCI and data provenance research—with team-building and delivery of scalable web platforms. At Torre he's grown from Senior Engineer to Technical Lead and now leads engineering strategy and execution, demonstrating rapid progression within the same company. His background in academic research and user-centered design gives him a nuanced view of developer tools, traceability, and UX for complex systems. Renan is comfortable switching between code, product decisions, and mentoring, bringing a practical emphasis on shipping user-focused solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Universidade Federal de São CarlosBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at University of Washington Bothell
Portuguese, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
petbccufscar/use
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:3 commits in 26 days
torre-labs/hashids_chrome
Jun 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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