{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Luiz Gonzaga dos Santos Filho, MBA",
    "label": "Engineering Leader",
    "image": "",
    "email": "lfilho@gmail.com",
    "phone": "",
    "url": "https://luiz.dev",
    "summary": "People-centric engineering leader with ~23.5 years scaling teams and orgs across Coursera, AWS, startups and government; currently leading the Developer Experience and the AI transformation for Coursera. A life-long learner and teacher, humbled by the people I've met along the way.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Vancouver",
      "countryCode": "Canada"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/luizgonzaga",
        "username": "luizgonzaga"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "url": "https://github.com/lfilho",
        "username": "lfilho"
      },
      {
        "network": "SpeakerDeck",
        "url": "https://speakerdeck.com/lfilho",
        "username": "lfilho"
      },
      {
        "network": "Topmate",
        "url": "https://topmate.io/luizgonzaga",
        "username": "luizgonzaga"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Topmate.io",
      "position": "Mentor",
      "startDate": "2023-10-01",
      "endDate": "2026-10-26",
      "summary": "Top 1% mentor globally and top 100 in Canada",
      "highlights": [
        "Top 1% mentor globally and top 100 in Canada"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Mentorship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Coursera",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineering Manager",
      "startDate": "2021-02-01",
      "endDate": "2026-10-26",
      "summary": "Managed several teams and charters in both the Enterprise and Platform org: Owned Developer Experience & Quality, developing and executing an AI roadmap for Engineering, measurably increasing adoption, fluency and productivity Drove key Enterprise metrics and projects, unlocking millions of dollars in revenue",
      "highlights": [
        "Led key new initiative post Coursera-Udemy merge: the combined company's biggest bet.",
        "Headed the AI Engineering transformation with positive ROI: increasing productivity and stable quality",
        "Timely delivered Enterprise growth initiatives: unlocking millions of dollars in recurring revenue with no additional headcount",
        "Saved $XXX,XXX per quarter with improved cross-dept processes, metrics and accountability, improving executive decision-making, increasing hiring throughput, etc",
        "Organizational growth: led several teams and charters, hired and promoted engineers to Senior, Staff, Sr. Staff and Manager",
        "Championed strong team culture and well-being by authoring and driving different org-wide policies around DE&I, increasing our hiring pipeline's diversity by ~10% and maintaining highest team retention in the org"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Ed-tech",
        "Budgeting",
        "Delivery Management",
        "Hiring",
        "Education",
        "AWS",
        "Google Apps Scripts",
        "Stakeholder Management",
        "Enterprise",
        "B2B"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Amazon / AWS",
      "position": "Software Engineering Manager III",
      "startDate": "2017-09-01",
      "endDate": "2020-12-31",
      "summary": "Proposed and implemented an engineering-wide \"Going off-call\" policy, increasing inclusiveness and belonging As a certified Cultural Competences for Teams instructor, increased inclusiveness and diversity awareness to the 300+ employees that took the training Part of the Software Engineering Manager Peer Advisory board, helping new managers onboard and be successful in the company",
      "highlights": [
        "At Amazon Payments: led a cross-functional team to deliver the end-to-end payments integration for Amazon Turkey (amazon.com.tr), involving international and cross-department collaboration and materializing Amazon's expansion in Europe; drove early adoption of PSD2 regulations, ensuring European market compliance ahead of competitors; owned Payment on Delivery for India market",
        "At AWS Route53: hired and grew a team from scratch; measurably improved operational efficiency, accessibility, and usability across five different products; owned multiple product roadmaps and delivered two global product launches, expanding AWS Route53's presence into new markets and regions",
        "Drove organizational change and fostered inclusion: improved our sourcing efficiency by ~32% and our pipeline's diversity by ~11%; championed an engineering-wide policy to promote inclusion and belonging; as a certified Cultural Competences for Teams instructor, trained hundreds of leaders and engineers around diversity and inclusion",
        "Mentored and supported other managers: served on the Software Engineering Manager Peer Advisory board, providing guidance and support to peers"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Payment Services",
        "AWS",
        "Route 53",
        "Agile Methodologies",
        "People Management",
        "Delivery Management",
        "Risk Management",
        "Stakeholder management",
        "Enterprise",
        "B2B"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Brandwatch",
      "position": "Frontend Team Lead",
      "startDate": "2016-04-01",
      "endDate": "2017-02-28",
      "summary": "Moved back to Germany and Brandwatch. After 8 months, became the team lead. Worked on existing and new features on their main product (Analytics) Wrote a script to perform a massive refactor (thousands of files) to update a ~5 year old jQuery codebase (with several breaking changes) to the latest version, improving bundle size, patching security vulnerabilities, improving performance on some DOM operations and enabling new jQuery features for the team to use",
      "highlights": [
        "As the Frontend team lead: helped the PM with agile ceremonies and backlog prioritization; liaison with the team manager in the UK headquarters",
        "As a Senior Frontend Engineer: worked existing and new feature development on Brandwatch's main product (Analytics); refactored thousands of files on a 5-year-old jQuery codebase, improving bundle size, patching security vulnerabilities, and enabling new features to be used"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Node",
        "Javascript",
        "RequireJS",
        "Backbone",
        "Underscore",
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "Highcharts",
        "jQuery",
        "Mustache",
        "BDD",
        "Jasmine",
        "Phantom",
        "REST",
        "Scrum",
        "GitHub",
        "JIRA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "X-Team",
      "position": "Full-stack engineer",
      "startDate": "2015-04-01",
      "endDate": "2015-04-30",
      "summary": "Short collaboration with X-Team's CTO researching, planning and developing the next phase of X-Labs (their open source initiative) and other internal projects involving IndexedDB",
      "highlights": [],
      "keywords": [
        "Node",
        "Javascript",
        "React",
        "Flux",
        "LevelDB",
        "Tape",
        "Highcharts",
        "jQuery",
        "BPM"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "DataEasy",
      "position": "Software Engineering Manager",
      "startDate": "2014-06-01",
      "endDate": "2016-03-31",
      "summary": "DataEasy provides different solutions for end-to-end electronic document process management and automation. It has Brazil's biggest private and government organizations as their clients. Technical contributions: Doubled the Engineering org to 5 teams and 4 charters (all their products), hiring teams from scratch, creating new roles and interfaces",
      "highlights": [
        "Led Engineering Transformation: directed a company-wide shift to modern DevOps and ChatOps practices, including Git, SemVer, CI pipelines, live application monitoring, automated release management, enabling higher quality and faster releases and allowing the IT department to stay leaner",
        "Championed Process Improvement: mapped all engineering processes, reduced touchpoints and staffing needs",
        "Fostered growth and upskilling: partnered with a local university to provide automated testing courses for senior engineers, streamlining testing cycles and reducing release bottlenecks",
        "Cultivated Innovation and Learning: created a bi-weekly program fostering innovation and knowledge sharing through tech talks and experimentation with new technologies"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Scrum",
        "Kanban",
        "SemVer",
        "BPM",
        "Software Testing",
        "Freetest",
        "Testlink",
        "DevOps",
        "Jenkins",
        "Continuous Integration",
        "Shell Script",
        "Java EE",
        "Maven",
        "GitHub",
        "New Relic",
        "Node",
        "Docker",
        "Management"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Brandwatch",
      "position": "Senior Frontend Engineer",
      "startDate": "2013-04-01",
      "endDate": "2013-11-30",
      "summary": "Worked on their main product line: Brand Analytics In addition to feature work, defined conventions and wrote codemods to refactor thousands of files across a dozen teams, reducing diff sizes and code reviewing times",
      "highlights": [
        "Worked on their main product line: Brand Analytics",
        "In addition to feature work, defined conventions and wrote codemods to refactor thousands of files across a dozen teams, reducing diff sizes and code reviewing times"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Node",
        "Javascript",
        "Require",
        "Backbone",
        "Underscore",
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "Highcharts",
        "jQuery",
        "Mustache",
        "BDD",
        "Jasmine",
        "Phantom",
        "REST",
        "Scrum",
        "GitHub",
        "JIRA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Content Fleet",
      "position": "Frontend Team Lead",
      "startDate": "2012-04-01",
      "endDate": "2013-03-31",
      "summary": "Worked as a frontend-focused full-stack engineer. Developed RESTful APIs, and their main MVC application Created the company's first automated build and deploy script",
      "highlights": [
        "Worked on their main Analytics application during the startup's growth phase",
        "While keeping crucial time-to-market velocity, led mobile responsiveness efforts and performance optimization initiatives, significantly reducing network calls and minimizing source code for a faster UX, especially on mobile devices, going from yellow to green on Lighthouse",
        "Responsible for the frontend strategy, conventions, quality, performance improvements and training new team members"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Node",
        "MongoDB",
        "Javascript",
        "Require",
        "Backbone",
        "Underscore",
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "Highcharts",
        "jQuery",
        "REST",
        "Scrum",
        "SVN",
        "Shell Script",
        "Pivotal Tracker"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Goiás State Government",
      "position": "Full-stack Engineer",
      "startDate": "2007-02-01",
      "endDate": "2012-03-31",
      "summary": "Worked as a full-stack java engineer on the Government's Human Capital Management (HCM) system, supporting payroll and other features for 200k+ people Led several performance, usability and accessibility improvements around page load reductions, ease of use, decrease of time to action and others",
      "highlights": [
        "Worked as a full-stack java engineer on the Government's Human Capital Management (HCM) system, supporting payroll and other features for 200k+ people",
        "Led several performance, usability and accessibility improvements around page load reductions, ease of use, decrease of time to action and others"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Java EE",
        "Velocity",
        "SQL",
        "HTML",
        "Javascript",
        "jQuery",
        "CSS",
        "SVN",
        "User Experience"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "DR Sistemas & Interagi",
      "position": "Junior Full-stack Engineer",
      "startDate": "",
      "summary": "Interagi and DR were where I had my full-time internships - 6 months each. At Interagi, I developed CRUD applications in PHP, MySQL and HTML and some image processing via PHP At DR Sistemas, I developed a Backend application for the public law sector. Responsible for collecting specs from Business and implementing them in Java",
      "highlights": [
        "Interagi: developed CRUD applications and did some programmatic image processing",
        "DR Sistemas: developed a Backend application for the public law sector"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Java EE",
        "Struts",
        "Hibernate",
        "SQL",
        "JSP",
        "PHP",
        "MySQL",
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "SVN",
        "CVS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Freelancer",
      "position": "Misc Software Engineering & Consultancy gigs",
      "startDate": "2003-01-01",
      "endDate": "2014-12-31",
      "summary": "Vega Sistemas, Brazil: High-level architecture on migrating a desktop application to a web platform SENAC Goiás, Brazil: Consultancy on web development best practices, productivity tools, agile methodologies and programming languages for their internal development department Federal University of Goiás, Brazil: Developed their public admission (Vestibular) system and website",
      "highlights": [],
      "keywords": [
        "12 Factor Apps",
        "Web Development",
        "Coaching",
        "Agile Methodologies",
        "Web Services",
        "REST",
        "Software Testing",
        "Software Quality",
        "Continuous Integration"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [
    {
      "organization": "GOJS User Group",
      "position": "Cofounder",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Cofounder at GOJS User Group (Goiânia, Brazil, 2013 - 2016)",
      "highlights": [],
      "keywords": [
        "Node",
        "Javascript"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Join Community",
      "position": "Co-organizer & speaker",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Co-organizer & speaker at Join Community (Goiânia, Brazil, 2014; 2015)",
      "highlights": [],
      "keywords": [
        "Javascript",
        "Node",
        "Public Speaking",
        "Community",
        "Event management",
        "Leadership"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Napoleon Hill Institute's Master Mind",
      "position": "Lead auxiliary instructor",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Lead auxiliary instructor at Napoleon Hill Institute's Master Mind (Goiânia, Brazil, 2012; 2014)",
      "highlights": [],
      "keywords": [
        "Leadership",
        "Public Speaking",
        "Coaching",
        "Effective Communication",
        "Time managing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Grupo Arte Nascente (GAN)",
      "position": "Actor & Web Developer",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Actor & Web Developer at Grupo Arte Nascente (GAN) (Goiânia, Brazil, 2008 – 2011)",
      "highlights": [],
      "keywords": [
        "PHP",
        "NGO",
        "Art",
        "Theater",
        "Communication",
        "Non-profit"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Zapt Arteatral",
      "position": "Actor, Web Developer, President, Artistic Director & Communication Coordinator",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Actor, Web Developer, President, Artistic Director & Communication Coordinator at Zapt Arteatral (Goiânia, Brazil, 2006 – 2015)",
      "highlights": [],
      "keywords": [
        "PHP",
        "Art",
        "Theater",
        "Communication",
        "Non-profit"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "AIESEC Brazil / GO",
      "position": "Marketing, Communication & Information Management teams",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Marketing, Communication & Information Management teams at AIESEC Brazil / GO (Goiânia, Brazil, 2007 – 2009)",
      "highlights": [],
      "keywords": [
        "Marketing",
        "Public Relations",
        "External Communication",
        "Internal Communication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Mocidade Espírita André Luiz",
      "position": "Coordinator, Speaker & Member",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Coordinator, Speaker & Member at Mocidade Espírita André Luiz (Goiânia, Brazil, 2000 – 2008)",
      "highlights": [],
      "keywords": [
        "Spiritualism",
        "Leadership",
        "Event management"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "IT Management Institute (IGTI)",
      "area": "Business Process Management, MBA",
      "studyType": "",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "Dec 2017",
      "score": "",
      "courses": []
    },
    {
      "institution": "Federal University of Goiás",
      "area": "Computer Engineering, Bachelor",
      "studyType": "",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "Jun 2011",
      "score": "",
      "courses": [
        "Relative average grade: 85%"
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "Saint Mary's University",
      "area": "Computer Science, Visiting Student",
      "studyType": "",
      "startDate": "",
      "endDate": "2010/1",
      "score": "",
      "courses": [
        "Won the Emerging Leaders of America Scholarship"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Engineering Leadership",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "coaching",
        "hiring"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Engineering Management",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "delivery management",
        "budgeting",
        "stakeholder"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI & Developer Experience",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "ai",
        "developer experience",
        "devops",
        "continuous integration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Product & Strategy",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": []
    },
    {
      "name": "Collaboration & Culture",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": []
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "name": "Portuguese",
      "level": "Native"
    },
    {
      "name": "English",
      "level": "Fluent"
    },
    {
      "name": "German & Spanish",
      "level": "Basic"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [],
  "references": [],
  "projects": [],
  "publications": [],
  "awards": [],
  "certificates": [],
  "meta": {
    "targetRoles": [
      "Director of Engineering",
      "VP Engineering",
      "Head of Engineering",
      "Head of Developer Experience",
      "VP of Engineering (scale-up)",
      "Senior Engineering Manager",
      "Senior Manager of Engineering"
    ],
    "preferredIndustries": [
      "EdTech",
      "AI/ML platforms",
      "Developer Tools",
      "Marketplaces"
    ],
    "preferredLocations": [
      "Remote",
      "Vancouver area",
      "Canada",
      "US West Coast"
    ],
    "seniorityTarget": "Director / VP / Head of Engineering / Senior Engineering Manager",
    "openToOpportunities": true,
    "availabilityNote": "Open to director-level, VP-level, head-of-engineering, or senior engineering manager roles where I can scale teams, drive AI and developer experience transformation, and shape engineering strategy. Past roles have been senior engineering management; the ideal next step is director/VP scope, but senior manager roles with strategic impact are also of interest.",
    "notLookingFor": [
      "Individual contributor hands-on coding roles",
      "Early-stage startups without product-market fit",
      "Pure people-management roles without strategic scope"
    ]
  }
}