Summary
Vinicius Moraes is a staff-level backend and platform engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, high-performance production systems across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS. He has progressed from senior PHP developer to engineering manager and tech lead, and now serves as Staff Software Engineer at Personio, where he blends architecture, DevOps and mentoring to drive reliability and faster time-to-market. Comfortable across PHP, Kotlin, Go and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD), he routinely refactors legacy codebases and architects resilient services that integrate product and operational needs. He has led hyper-growth hiring, built distributed teams across time zones, and shipped first-of-a-kind financial products such as Cabify’s Lana wallet. Based in São Paulo with professional ties across Europe and Latin America, Vinicius pairs pragmatic system design with a strong people-first management style. A self-described “spectator of a world in ruins,” he brings a reflective, resilient mindset to long-lived systems and team culture.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Processamento de Dados, Processamento de Dados at Universidade do Estado do Amazonas
English, Portuguese, Spanish