Rodrigo De Melo is an engineering manager based in São Paulo with 12 years of experience building and scaling front-end teams and customer-facing dashboards. He has led cross-functional squads at fintechs and payments platforms—driving product strategy, OKRs, and post-merger product consolidation to deliver unified customer experiences. Rodrigo combines hands-on technical roots in JavaScript/React/Node with people-first management: hiring, coaching career growth, and improving engineering metrics and processes. He excels at translating product goals into reliable delivery at scale while keeping developer productivity and UX aligned. A pragmatic problem-solver, he’s experienced in CI/CD and full-stack development from early-career roles, which helps him bridge technical decisions and team health. Now at Virdee, he continues to focus on shipping great products with predictable outcomes and strong engineering culture.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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