$ whoami — lead software engineer · seville, spain
Luiz Bim.
Scalable systems, calm delivery.
15+ years building full-stack products, cloud-native platforms and event-driven systems on AWS with TypeScript and Node.js — and leading the teams that ship them.
years_experience: 15+
teams_led: up_to_10
aws_cost_cut: -40%
serverless_spend: -90%
peak_live_users: 170,000+
// experience
Drive Inc — Lead Software Engineer
2024/12 → now
Leading the NEVO and TradeBid teams, both shipping multiple updates a week. Architected TradeBid, a multi-region vehicle auction platform across Ireland, the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium and Luxembourg — white-label ready. Delivered a zero-downtime database migration with Debezium CDC, keeping live bidding intact. Led the NEVO EV platform end-to-end, integrating Bank of Ireland and dealership networks.
typescript · nestjs · aws-cdk · kafka · debezium · next.js
Inflight Dublin
2021 → 2024
DevOps → Full-Stack → Team Lead
Cut client tickets 40% by making automated testing the company standard. Cut AWS costs 40%. Led a 6-engineer team; Nx monorepo, Elasticsearch + Kibana on Terraform and Ansible.
Daily Apps / Sticker Maker
2019 → 2021
Software Engineer, Backend
Cut serverless spend 90% with a backend migration. High-availability image processing with Varnish Cache for a global consumer mobile product.
Challenge Place
2016 → 2019
Co-Founder, Backend Engineer
Real-time backend services built for high availability and low latency. Redis/Lua queuing patterns for throughput; PM2 + Bash automation.
DecWS
2011 → 2017
Intern → Team Lead
Led 10 engineers on “Black Friday Brazil” — infrastructure for 170,000+ live users. ERP performance +85%; hardened the tax engine.
// core skills
langTypeScript, JavaScript, Bash, SQL
backendNestJS, Node.js, GraphQL, Microservices, Socket.IO
frontendReact, Next.js, React Native, Vite, Storybook
dataPostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
// cloud & leadership
cloudAWS (CDK, ECS, Lambda, EventBridge, MSK…), Docker, Terraform
archEvent-driven (Debezium CDC, Kafka, SQS), multi-region, Nx
leadTeams up to 10, Scrum Master, mentoring, stakeholders
eduBSc Information Systems — Universidade de São Paulo