Zarathon Viana is a senior engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling high-performing software teams and resilient platforms across fintech, logistics, gaming, and marketplace industries. Currently Sr Head of Engineering at QuintoAndar, he previously led checkout and card platform initiatives at iFood that handled over 100 million orders and helped architect the company’s first credit offerings. He has a track record of transforming organizations—scaling teams from a few engineers to 90+, reviving discontinued products, and driving cultural and architectural change to improve reliability and delivery. Zarathon blends hands-on technical depth (cloud, microservices, observability) with people-first leadership, mentoring new managers and prioritizing psychological safety. Based in Ceará, Brazil, he pairs academic training in software engineering with pragmatic methods like XP and Lean to accelerate outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a builder of teams and systems that survive outages and scale with the business.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado em Sistemas de Informação, Engenharia de Software, Bacharelado em Sistemas de Informação, Engenharia de Software at Federal University of Ceara
Mestrado em Engenharia, Computer Software Engineering, Mestrado em Engenharia, Computer Software Engineering at CESAR.School
Contributions:28 PRs, 22 pushes, 9 branches in 27 days
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Zarathon Viana - Sr Head Of Engineering at QuintoAndar