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Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager with senior IC depth.

16+

years in tech

10+

years hands-on engineering

11+

years leading teams and delivery

7+

years direct people management

I am a Brazil-based Engineering Manager with 7+ years of direct people management, founder-level delivery ownership, and current Tech Lead responsibilities as a Senior Software Engineer on a remote US product team. I hire and coach engineers, turn ambiguity into clear delivery plans, and stay technical enough to guide architecture, manage risk, and remove blockers early.

Open to Engineering Manager roles7+ years of direct people managementCurrent Senior Software Engineer with Tech Lead responsibilitiesFounder and former software house operatorManaged teams of up to 11 engineersRemote collaborator with US product teams
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Remote from Brazil. Available for B2B contractor work or Brazil-based employment.

Proof

Leadership credibility backed by hands-on systems work.

My work combines people leadership, delivery ownership, and enough technical depth to make sound decisions when product, architecture, and team health are all in play.

Current Technical Leadership

Senior Software Engineer at FullStack Labs, currently acting as a Tech Lead for a 5-engineer LCvista team. I guide architecture, technical research, proof-of-concept work, implementation quality, and delivery planning without overstating formal people-management scope.

People Management

Managed and developed engineering teams in previous leadership roles, including 6 engineers at Eveclass and 11 at Shift Code. My scope included hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, performance feedback, coaching, team health, planning, and delivery ownership.

Product Delivery And Team Enablement

I use clear priorities, feedback loops, stakeholder context, and early blocker removal to help teams make decisions with confidence. The goal is healthy accountability and predictable progress, not more process.

Built From Zero

Joined Eveclass as the first engineering hire and helped launch the first usable version in about 8 months. The platform later supported 10,000+ platforms, 250,000+ users, and 25,000+ courses.

How I lead

Clarity, growth, and accountable delivery.

Good engineering management creates the conditions for strong decisions to happen repeatedly: clear priorities, honest planning, healthy feedback loops, and enough context for engineers to own outcomes.

I stay close enough to the work to see delivery risk early, clarify decisions, and remove blockers before they cost engineers days. Constant communication is not overhead to me; it is how teams avoid hidden dependencies and late surprises.

I also care about growth, feedback, and clear ownership. The best teams make constraints visible, partner well with product and customers, and use that context to choose better technical and delivery tradeoffs.

Case studies

Leadership decisions in real systems.

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Engineering Manager

Building Eveclass from zero

How Augusto joined Eveclass as its first engineer, launched a white-label edtech product in about 8 months, and led the team through growth.

  • First engineering hire
  • 6 engineers managed at peak
  • 80% streaming cost reduction
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Senior Software Engineer / Practical Tech Lead

Creating the LCvista Marketplace

How Augusto owned architecture, implementation, and delivery coordination for a marketplace that brought content purchasing into an existing LMS workflow.

  • Architecture and implementation owner
  • Tenant-aware content distribution
  • Revenue growth support
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Founder / Engineering Manager

Leading 11 engineers at Shift Code

How Augusto founded a software house, managed 11 engineers directly, delivered 100+ client projects, and kept a team motivated under startup constraints.

  • 11 engineers managed directly
  • 100+ client projects
  • 12 people at peak
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Experience

Recent roles with leadership weight.

Full experience

Senior Software Engineer

FullStack Labs / LCvista

February 2023 - Present

Remote

LCvista is a leading LMS and compliance platform for accounting firms in the United States. Through FullStack Labs, Augusto works as a Senior Software Engineer with practical tech lead responsibilities on a 5-engineer team.

  • Provide practical tech-lead influence for a 5-engineer team working on LCvista, a leading LMS and compliance platform for accounting firms in the United States.
  • Help shape architecture, delivery plans, technical research, proof-of-concept work, and implementation quality without formal direct reports.
  • Led and implemented post-merger data synchronization from Prolaera to LCvista across 100+ tables, supporting a phased customer migration into a single primary application.
  • Owned architecture, implementation, and delivery coordination for a new in-product marketplace that enables firm administrators to purchase content and distribute it to collaborators, supporting revenue growth.
  • Created a customer data lake across 500+ tenant databases, reducing the need for internal teams to query tenants separately for support, search, and operational workflows.
  • Extended LMS functionality with versioning and equivalency features.
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Engineering Manager

Eveclass

April 2019 - October 2022

Florianopolis, Brazil

Eveclass is an edtech platform for content creators and education businesses to build white-label online teaching platforms. Augusto joined as the first engineering hire and helped build the product from the ground up.

  • Managed and mentored a 6-engineer team while helping build Eveclass, a white-label online education platform, from day one.
  • Hired 7 engineers over time and led interviews, onboarding, 1:1s, performance feedback, and day-to-day engineering management.
  • Joined as the first engineering hire and helped launch the first usable version in about 8 months.
  • Helped build a platform supporting 10,000+ white-label platforms, 250,000+ users, 25,000+ courses, and 99.98% uptime since launch.
  • Led development across 50+ platform modules spanning sales, content, users, websites, learning resources, and payment workflows.
  • Helped create an in-house streaming service that reduced streaming costs by 80% and strengthened Eveclass's commercial positioning.
  • Partnered with product and customers to translate creator needs into practical features for selling and distributing educational content.
  • Built transparent checkout and payment gateway integrations for online learning businesses.
  • Helped design and implement a website builder optimized for SEO.
  • Combined 20+ AWS services to support a secure, scalable application architecture.
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Founder / Engineering Manager

Shift Code

May 2015 - April 2019

Greater Florianopolis, Brazil

Shift Code was a software house founded by Augusto. Over four years, the company delivered more than 100 projects for clients across services, health, legal, fashion, education, and startups.

  • Founded and operated a software development company that grew to 12 people at peak, including 11 engineers managed directly.
  • Delivered 100+ client projects across services, health, legal, fashion, education, and startup markets.
  • Managed engineering delivery across web applications, mobile applications, APIs, microservices, and SaaS-style products.
  • Worked directly with clients to estimate projects, define scope, prioritize work, manage expectations, and turn business needs into shipped software.
  • Mentored engineers on architecture, implementation, code quality, delivery practices, and professional growth.
  • Helped develop engineers who later grew into senior roles at other companies.
  • Delivered representative mobile projects including Barbearia Vip, a scheduling and discovery app for a franchise with 50+ barber shops, and an Aurum Software companion app for lawyers.
  • Used performance bonuses, regular 1:1s, transparent decision-making, and close team communication to keep engineers motivated despite startup constraints.
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Remote with US and Canadian teams

Looking for an Engineering Manager who stays close to the work?

I am available for B2B contractor work through my Brazilian company, or through a Brazil-based employment arrangement when available.