Summary
Thales Lima is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience and 7+ years focused on mobile development, now contributing at Google from London. He excels at improving developer productivity and app reliability—driving a 30% productivity boost at a recent project by enforcing standards, automating releases, and introducing continuous testing. As an Android lead and engineering manager, he has shipped production-facing features like facial recognition, rebuilt legacy apps into modern architectures, and removed fragile dependencies to improve reliability. He pairs hands-on Kotlin/Coroutines/MVVM expertise with practical DevOps and backend experience (React/PWA, Rails, Google Cloud), and has long-standing personal projects including a modular personal finance app and testing library contributions. Comfortable hiring and mentoring, he’s actively seeking roles where he can scale teams and influence engineering culture.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Technology Intelligence and Digital Design, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Technology Intelligence and Digital Design at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo
Portuguese, English