Thiago Puluceno
Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolThiago Puluceno is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Chicago with 11+ years of hands-on software experience and over a decade in the IT industry, now leading multidisciplinary teams at Microsoft to design and deliver Generative AI solutions for Fortune 500 clients. He combines deep Java and cloud-native expertise—microservices, Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS—and a track record of shipping production systems across health, finance and call-center domains. A pragmatic leader who still codes, Thiago has managed teams of up to 25 people, driven architecture and delivery at JPMorgan and GoHealth, and built customer-facing platforms that processed millions in transactions. His background spans founding a SaaS ordering startup, migrating banking mainframes to private cloud, and automating large test grids—evidence of both entrepreneurial grit and operational rigor. Exceptionally comfortable at the intersection of product, engineering and customer engagement, he brings a strategic mindset to long-term team and technology roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Systems, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Systems at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Loyola University Chicago
Portuguese, Spanish, French, English
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Github Skills (21)
explore8
java7
espn7
resteasy6
mongodb6
sorting6
nodejs6
api6
htmlunit6
python6
regex6
webservice6
memory-leaks6
benchmarking5
artificial-intelligence5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
puluceno/mtg
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
puluceno/ca
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:55 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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