Lucas Motta
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Optum
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Motta is a seasoned software engineer and tech lead with 13 years building and scaling high-traffic web applications across education, finance and e-commerce. He has led distributed teams of 10+ engineers, driving major migrations from monolith Django checkouts to microservices and cutting checkout latency by 40% while improving conversion and delivery velocity. A two-time startup co-founder, he designed crawler-driven travel marketplaces that achieved thousands of ticket sales and double-digit monthly growth, blending Python, Scrapy, Django and AWS. He pairs hands-on engineering in Go, Python, TypeScript and Flutter with strong architectural practices (Clean Architecture, SOLID) and DevOps experience (Docker, serverless, CI/CD). Early experience as a white-hat hacker and a self-taught polyglot (English/Spanish) give him a pragmatic security-minded and user-focused perspective. Currently exploring LLMs and LangChain to apply generative models to chatbots and documentation workflows, he combines curiosity with a bias for planning and team-centered delivery.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Sistemas de Informação, Bachelor's degree, Sistemas de Informação at UniAcademia - Centro Universitário
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (6)
ftp10
coffeescript10
sftp10
deployment-automation10
ftps10
git9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lucasmotta/dploy
May 2013 - Feb 2019
⛔️ currently unmaintained ⛔️
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:112 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on updating and refactoring the codebase, with a consistent emphasis on logging and deployment procedures. They introduced SFTP support and FTPS configurations, indicating a focus on secure file transfer protocols and infrastructure setup. The commits show ongoing work related to the deployment process and improving related tooling.
sftpftpftps
lucasmotta/sass-module-importer
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Simple importer for node-sass to import npm and bower modules
Contributions:36 commits, 15 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 4 months
bowernode-sassnpm
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