Bruno Tikami - Engineering Manager

São Paulo, Brazil

Experience

Feb 2020 - Present

5 years 6 months

Brazil

Engineering Manager

unico IDtech

Leading 14 engineers across 2 cross-functional teams, responsible for people growth, performance management, and project delivery.
Responsible for implementing the data privacy pipelines and ensuring high security and compliance standards, reducing the average processing time of DSRs (Data Subject Requests) by 13.5%.
Cross-organization impact by implementing engineering standards company-wide, affecting the productivity and code maintainability of more than 370 engineers.
Stack: Python, Go, C#, Flutter, ReactJs, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform, Argo CD, Hashicorp Vault, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis Pub/Sub, JWT, Keycloak.

Jul 2017 - Jul 2019

2 years 1 month

Brazil

Engineering Operations Manager

Mercado Bitcoin

Hired 15 engineers and structured them across 6 squads.
I was directly responsible for the vault system, implemented a critical mission system with an uptime of 99.99% - and scaled the infrastructure of the overall system, supporting a growth of 10x in number of transactions.
Co-responsible for implementing a security and compliance framework and a bug bounty program.
Stack: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Lightcoin, XRP, Python, Flask, Celery, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, RabbitMq, Jenkins, New Relic, Sentry.

Apr 2016 - Jul 2017

1 year 4 months

Germany

Senior Software Engineer

Port Zero GmbH

Implementation and maintenance of projects of multiple customers.
Stack: Python, Django, Terraform, PHP, Apache, Python Fabric, on-premise.

Jan 2013 - Mar 2016

3 years 3 months

Senior Software Engineer

Titans Group

Implemented messaging, billing, and collection platforms focusing on scalability, high availability, and resilience with a massive volume of daily transactions - around +25MM daily.
Responsible for the operation details to planning sustainable growth strategies for platforms.
Stack: Python 2 and Python 3, Flask, Celery, Go, Python Fabric, AWS (RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Computing in general), Docker, MySQL, RabbitMq, Jenkins, Nginx, New Relic, Sentry.

Jan 2010 - Dec 2013

2 years

Germany

Senior Software Engineer

Axiros Gmbh

Responsible for projects from different countries in Europe and Latin America involving zero-touch / triple-play provisioning of internet devices, working both remotely and in loco.
On the Latin America projects, I was directly responsible for the infrastructure, provisioned CPEs, and mission-critical systems with an uptime of 99.99%.
Stack: Python 2, Zope, Apache, Python buildout, UNIX networking tools such tcpflow, tcpdump etc.

Jul 2010 - Jan 2011

7 months

Brazil

Software Engineer

TV1.com

Member of the development team at Portal Brasil (brasil.gov.br) using Zope / Plone.
An active NDA prevents me from detailing more.
Stack: Python 2, Zope, Apache, Python buildout.

Summary

19 years of experience on software engineering, of which 8 years on the technical leadership; specialist on cryptocurrency exchange and high throughput telecommunication systems.

Deep experience in complex networking systems, having worked with cloud computing from providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Moderator, speaker, and mentor of the Python/Django community in Brazil.