Senior Software Engineering Leader | Head of IT | CTO-level
📍 Recife, Brazil | 🌍 Remote-friendly

Software engineering leader with 18+ years of experience building and scaling products while leading teams across startup and enterprise environments.

Strong background in hands-on engineering, technical strategy, and end-to-end SDLC ownership, always focused on business impact, scalability, and execution.

• Apply AI and LLMs to real, production-grade use cases with measurable business impact
• Actively building AI-native engineering teams by integrating AI assistants, automated workflows, and agent-based tooling into daily development operations.
• Stay hands-on with code, maintaining strong software engineering fundamentals and code quality
• Lead, mentor, and scale software engineering teams, balancing autonomy with accountability
• Define software architecture and technical strategy, guided by simplicity, scalability, and maintainability
• Design and build cloud-native platforms on AWS, delivering end-to-end solutions (VPC, ECS/EKS, CI/CD, CloudFront, WAF)
• Deliver high-availability systems and web/mobile applications, optimized for performance and reliability
• Design and implement BI, ETL pipelines, data integration, and search solutions (including Elasticsearch)
• Turn ambiguous and complex problems into clear, executable plans, combining technical depth with ownership
• Comfortable in environments with high autonomy and low bureaucracy.

Backend & Frontend

• Node.js, TypeScript, Python, C#, .NET Java
• React, Next.js

Cloud & DevOps

• AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, ECS, GitHub Actions, CI/CD

Data & Search

• MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, Elasticsearch

AI

• LLM integrations and AI-powered products
• Building AI-native engineering teams
• Agent-based workflows embedded into the SDLC
• Cursor (AI-first development environment)
• ChatGPT OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, LM Studio, Ollama, Hugging Face

• Senior Software Development Manager / Head of IT
• CTO / Head of Technology (EdTech & SaaS)
• Co-founder of digital platforms

Experience with large-scale apps, cloud modernization, M&A technical integration, and cost optimization.

Execution-driven, objective, and accountable, with a strong sense of ownership and urgency.
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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliancorrea