Summary
Sergio Filho is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems across Google, Stripe, Facebook, and Microsoft. He currently leads the Spanner Lookups team at Google, driving Read and Query performance improvements that saved thousands of CPU cores and enabled handling billions of requests per second. At Stripe he architected and operated the money-movement platform during a 10x growth to $60B/month, delivering 99.99% on-time transfers and adding redundancy for key currencies while decomposing a Ruby monolith into services. His background spans databases, distributed SQL, real-time analytics, and large-scale migrations—from SQL Server internals to Facebook’s streaming analytics and Spanner SQL features. Based in Kirkland, WA, he pairs deep technical problem-solving with cross-organizational coordination in large codebases and regulatory projects. A practical engineer-manager, he’s comfortable shipping low-level systems work and leading teams through complex performance and reliability challenges.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University of Washington
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
English, Portuguese, Spanish