Summary
Thiago Ribeiro is a senior software engineer and tech lead with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and leading small engineering teams across fintech and product startups. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, Node.js (NestJS), and Python (Django), and has designed event-driven microservices, real‑time PIX payments, and blockchain integrations on Polygon. Thiago has repeatedly taken products from zero to production—being the first engineering hire at a fintech, migrating monoliths to Kafka/Kubernetes, and owning database migrations with zero downtime. He focuses on developer productivity and AI-powered internal tools, having led an AI Guild and shipped automations that improved engineering workflows. Comfortable spanning architecture, DevOps and data pipelines (BigQuery, Airflow, NiFi), he blends pragmatic engineering with product collaboration and mentorship. Based in Greater Brasília, he pairs deep Rails proficiency with a taste for distributed systems and practical automation that reduces operational friction.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Software Engineering, Bachelor Software Engineering at Universidade de Brasília
English, Portuguese