Summary
Thiago Bustamante is a seasoned engineering leader and architect with 15+ years driving large-scale, cloud-native systems and developer organizations across Brazil and the Americas. Currently VP of Engineering at Trustly, he has a track record as a Principal Engineer at ThoughtWorks, startup founder, and head of engineering roles where he led cloud migrations, microservices transformations, and DevOps cultural change for hundreds of systems and teams. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Java, Node.js/TypeScript, event-driven architectures, event sourcing and API design with people leadership of engineering, QA and DBA functions. An active open-source maintainer (creator of TypeScript libraries and the Tree Gateway API gateway/service mesh) and former post-grad professor, he blends academic rigor from a master’s in CS with practical framework and platform-building experience. Notably, he has repeatedly moved legacy monoliths to microservices while simultaneously building developer tooling that accelerates team delivery.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Master's degree, Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English, Spanish