Fernando Meyer

What kind of companies/teams I’m looking for

• Companies whose main product line is entirely or partially derived from applied technology research and development.
• Teams composed of bright and collaborative minded individuals.
• Teams that believe they should own and be on call for their production systems.
• A project where I can work on challenging problems.
• Most of my recent work has been on a per-project or contracting basis. I’m now looking for a long term project.

Qualifications

• Experience building distributed applications, services, and scalable cloud architectures.
• Experience hiring and managing high performing engineering teams.
• Hands on experience building web platforms and services
• A tendency to enjoy and excel at complicated technical problems.
• My current main working languages are Go lang and Python. I’m slowly catching with Rust on my spare time. In the past, I have worked most exclusively with Java and C++.

Work Experience

Seatgeek: Staff Software engineer - platform engineering, Dez 2019 - Current

• I’ve migrated our main data storage from Mysql 5.5 -> PostgreSQL 12.x securing and modernizing our middleware data model.
• I’m leading authentication and authorization stack modernization.
• I’m leading runtime performance testing, production tuning and codebase improvements.

Meetup: Staff Software engineer - platform engineering, May 2019 - Dez 2019

• I maintained our internal developer tooling to interface with AWS the tooling provisioned accounts, enforced policies, and created default required resources to communicate with our main account.
• Created a tool/method to automatically track ownership, deployments, CI pipelines, and observability for production systems

Decisiv: Lead Software engineer - data engineering, 2017 - April 2019

• I’ve modernized the data ingestion and data pipeline architectures.
• I created a job scheduler and orchestrator to support custom legacy ETL processes. Also shipped a UI to manage the system.
• I’ve crafted a DAG DSL to define processes and dependencies and reuse code blocks on the new ingestion jobs.

Paternity leave from September 2017 to November 2017

Wattx: CTO in Residence, June 2017 - August 2017

• I wrote a privacy-preserving data proxy implementing differential privacy as defined by Cynthia Dwork, ICALP July 2006
• I created a custom orchestrator for generating synthetic databases.

Dentolo: Interim CTO - contract, January 2017 - April 2017

• I delivered three new projects: A customer acquisition tool in React/Redux, a workflow and state machine for dental treatment classification in Ruby on Rails, and a patient API to integrate with insurance brokers.

Applift: Director of Engineering, 2016

• I was responsible for the engineering management of 7 developers, hiring, technology KPIs, and architecture decisions together with the team.
• I was responsible for implementing architecture changes that directly impacted production uptime and stability, reducing outages and latency variance considerably.

Trecker: Sr. Software Engineer, October 2015 - February 2016

• I extracted and optimized the event position API, which handled many clients simultaneously to keep tracking of mobile devices’ location.
• I’ve implemented background processes to categorized and classify each time and position based on specific tasks the mobile operator was performing.
• I’ve remodeled our data store from discrete chunks of time to a continuous stream of events, which was a crucial improvement to simplify data classification and summarization.
• I’ve also implemented a series of filters to smooth GPS data and interpolate missing coordinates.

BrasilCT: Director of Technology, 2014 - 2015

• Managed a team of 26 engineers split into 4 teams, which included infrastructure and development.
• Delivered a B2B e-commerce platform, a payment processor for loyalty programs, and several internal systems
• Implanted Level 1 PCI compliance in 7 months.

elo7.com: Lead software engineer - Search, 2012 - 2013

• First senior hire responsible for shaping the new team and professionalize the software development area.
• Accumulated infrastructure and SRE duties until the infra team was assembled.
• Lead the application and infrastructure migration from colocation to AWS.
• Later, I focused my efforts on the search architecture, implementing a search API to handle asynchronous indexing and sharding indexes across several Solr instances.
• Implemented an optimization on Solr indexes to increase product discoverability.
• Replaced the entire category, home, and feature products architecture with faceted queries on Solr.
• Implemented a custom Portuguese stemmer and spelling corrector to improve product content quality and discoverability.
• Implemented a system to manage custom ranking criteria.
• I presented a few tools and techniques for this project at QCON Sao Paulo - 2013

R7: Lead software Architect, 2011

• In charge of architecture and development of a web content publishing system.
• I had heavy ownership of tech direction and influence on cultural change, advocating lean techniques.

Locaweb: Software Engineer specialist, 2010

• I’ve delivered an online backup scheduler and management system and developed a SaaS e-commerce platform using Ruby on Rails.

Globo.com: Sr. Software Engineer, May 2008 - 2009

I spend my first six months with the CMS platform team taming their multi-services distributed architecture; then I joined the new web semantics team to implement a new approach for the entire portal using web semantic concepts. We’ve developed internal knowledge extractors and classifiers to increment news relevance.

Redhat: Sr. Software Engineer, 2007 - 2008

• I worked on the Drools R&D team as one of the core developers of the Guvnor project, which is a centralized repository for Drools Knowledge Base.
• I also helped to integrate Drools core into the ESB/SOA platform, and I also engaged in onsite Drools training for customers in Brazil.

Solvo S/A: Software Developer, 2006

• Implemented a backward-compatible and open source IBM Open Class replacement using the C++ standard library to support old projects on their way to an AIX upgrade.
• Integration between legacy systems, JVM Tuning and Performance consultant for different projects

Netcom Systems: Junior Software Developer, 2005

• I’ve modeled and implemented a system specialist in network protocol analysis and traffic control.
• I’ve implemented collectors and summarizers to process Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) statistics and store in an RRD a per IP database of internal network load by services.

SPCOM: Junior Software Developer, 2004

• Implemented a web component using C++ to interface with the Siemens HiPath PABX to allow call center operators to control inbound and outbound calls only via the scripting application.
• Implemented several features in house and customers’ financial and insurance web apps using Java J2EE

Education

University of London - BSc Computer Science (Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence) (online) - I’ve transferred a good portion of my past credits, and I’m taking the courses to complete my degree.

Universidade de São Paulo - USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

B.Sc. Applied Mathematics, 2013 - 2014: Before moving to Germany, I took the following courses during three semesters: Discrete Mathematics, Real and Complex analysis, Single and Multivariate Calculus, Probability and Statistics, Mathematics modeling, and Linear algebra.

Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - UNIOESTE, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil B.Sc. Computer Science, 2001 - 2004 (dropped out in the next to last semester)