Wellington Duraes
Chief Technology Officer at Instituto Ler Mais
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolWellington Duraes is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in São Paulo with nine years focused on IoT, embedded systems, and developer-facing platforms across both large and small organizations. After a long tenure at Microsoft where he led IoT Device SDKs, developer support, and cross-organization programs—delivering GA releases for Embedded C SDK and Azure IoT middleware—he transitioned to leadership roles in RTOS program management and now heads technology at Instituto Ler Mais. He combines program-level rigor with hands-on embedded development experience, testing releases on development kits and engaging directly with silicon partners and customers. An active maker and licensed HAM operator (PU2WDU), he brings a practical, hardware-aware perspective that informs product roadmaps and developer experience. Known for recovering multimillion-dollar losses and driving measurable business growth, he blends technical depth with change management and field enablement.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate IT, Graduate IT at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SPMaster of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at Instituto de Pesquisas TecnológicasMCSD Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, MCSD Microsoft Certified Solution Developer at Microsoft 
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (33)
mbed10
serializer10
microsoft10
azure-sdk10
microsoft-azure10
azure-iothub10
c9910
iot10
sdk10
azure-services10
embedded10
azure10
console9
middleware9
windows9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wduraes/Workshops
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Repo with code from all my workshops at Snoco Makerspace
Contributions:1 review, 95 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 10 months
pythonmakerspace
wduraes/curso-iot
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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