About Me
Luiz Chagas

Luiz Chagas

Director of Engineering

Software Engineering Leader with 10+ years of experience building products and teams. Currently Director of Engineering at Crema, where I drive technical strategy, architect cloud-native solutions, and mentor engineers from junior to staff level. AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

TypeScript React React Native Node.js AWS Azure GCP SQL / NoSQL Docker CI/CD
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Work Experience
Director of Engineering Aug 2022 – Present
Crema — Kansas City

Drives technical strategy across all of Crema’s engineering operations. Manages 5–12 engineers with hands-on coaching and career development. Leads solution architecture for digital transformation projects and plays an active role in sales and business development.

Engineering Management AWS Technical Consulting Agile / SCRUM
Senior Application Developer Dec 2019 – Aug 2022
Crema — Kansas City

Lead developer on enterprise products for major clients. Provided internal leadership in React, React Native, TypeScript, and unit testing. Worked closely with stakeholders to define scope, roadmaps, and sprint planning.

TypeScript React React Native Redux Firebase Expo Node.js
Application Developer Nov 2018 – Dec 2019
Crema — Kansas City

Built enterprise and public-facing products using React and TypeScript, collaborating daily with designers and product managers under agile methodologies.

Full Stack Developer Feb 2017 – Jan 2020
Freelance — Remote

Developed full-stack web applications as an independent contractor, specializing in real-time interactions via WebSockets and performance optimization (memory leaks, thread blockers).

Information Security Analyst Jan 2016 – Dec 2016
RHI Magnesita — Brazil

Built InfoSec compliance reports covering offices across 5 continents. Monitored a SIEM environment and engaged with IT Directors to uphold ISO/IEC 27000 standards.

Software Developer Jun 2011 – May 2013
CEFET-MG — Brazil

Contributed to a large ERP system built in Java + PostgreSQL. Reworked SQL queries that cut execution time by up to 90% in some cases.

Java PostgreSQL
Projects
Vera: Plant Care App

Mobile plant care companion for iOS & Android, built by a 4-person team in just 16 days and launched on Thanksgiving 2019. Reached 200k+ registered users and 30k daily active users before being sold in May 2020.

200k+ registered users • 30k daily active at sale
TypeScript React Native Firebase
Stock Info

NPM utility that retrieves current stock data from Yahoo Finance. Built as a by-product of a personal robo-advisor project.

Used in 50+ GitHub projects
Node.js NPM Open Source
Education
B.S. Computer Engineering
CEFET-MG
2010 – 2016
Exchange Student — Computer Science
Kansas State University
2014 – 2015
Associate’s in Information Science
CEFET-MG
2007 – 2009
More About Me

I love soccer, games (computer, board, and everything in between), my family, grilling, and beer. 🍻

I enjoy digging deep into programming — you may find me reading textbooks on Computer Science or Software Development just for fun.

Functional Programming is my jam. I’m overall a friendly person and enjoy being nice to others.

Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
2024

Validated expertise in designing scalable, cost-effective infrastructure on AWS — compute, storage, networking, and cloud-native architectures.

AWS Cloud Architecture Infrastructure
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