Thales Correa
Head Of Engineering at Grupo GCB
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolThales Correa is a Head of Engineering with 11 years in tech who blends hands-on backend development in Node.js, TypeScript and Go with strategic leadership of cross-functional teams building web, mobile and payment systems. He has led mission-critical projects including a city-wide transit card recharge app, PCI-compliant payment gateway APIs, and a digital wallet with P2P transfers and ATM cash flows, while managing diverse squads delivering checkout and BNPL solutions. A strong advocate for DevOps and automation, he drives CI/CD adoption with GitLab CI, infrastructure as code using Terraform, and deployments on AWS and Azure. Comfortable across the full product lifecycle and Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), he focuses on upskilling teams in both technical craft and soft skills to sustain high performance. An engineer-turned-manager, he still contributes technical direction and architecture, ensuring pragmatic, secure solutions rather than abstract designs.
11 years of coding experience
Tecnólogo em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sisetemas, Tecnologia da Informação, Tecnólogo em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sisetemas, Tecnologia da Informação at Faculdade de Tecnologia Senac-RS
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (25)
git10
github10
patch9
subversion8
seed7
serve6
nodejs6
elastic-apm6
teste6
css4
sass4
distributed-tracing4
apm4
devops4
agent4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thrcorrea/node-controle-tarefas
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 30 pushes in 9 months
testingteste
thrcorrea/envloader
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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