Wellington Freire is an engineering manager and seasoned backend generalist with 11 years of software experience, currently leading cross-functional teams at HelloFresh in Berlin. He has grown with the company through its scale-up phase, moving from PHP monolith maintenance to architecting microservices and an experimentation platform in Go. Wellington blends hands-on technical leadership with people management—hiring, mentoring, and coordinating multi-team modernization efforts across web and mobile domains. He’s comfortable across the stack and the delivery lifecycle, from core API design to product-oriented squad transformation. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often bridges gaps between legacy systems and modern architecture while keeping customer-facing reliability front of mind. His background in applied mathematics and early analytics work gives him a quantitative bent that informs technical decisions and operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Technical degree on Chemistry, Technical degree on Chemistry at ETE Getúlio Vargas
(Incomplete) Bachelor in Applied and Computational Mathematics, (Incomplete) Bachelor in Applied and Computational Mathematics at University of São Paulo
Contributions:8 PRs, 17 pushes, 8 branches in 1 day
golanggo-application
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Wellington Freire - Engineering Manager at HelloFresh