# About Felipe de Almeida > Software engineer and architect with 12+ years building and running .NET platforms — distributed systems, event-driven design, and CI/CD. As Head of Technology at Dietbox he led a 13-person engineering, QA, UX and support organization while staying hands-on in architecture and delivery. Most recently Senior Product Engineer at Kota.io, building health-insurance infrastructure for the European market. Currently freelancing through Pampa Devs — his software studio — and open to new roles. ## Biography Software engineer and architect with 12+ years building and running .NET platforms — distributed systems, event-driven design, and CI/CD. As Head of Technology at Dietbox he led a 13-person engineering, QA, UX and support organization while staying hands-on in architecture and delivery. Most recently Senior Product Engineer at Kota.io, building health-insurance infrastructure for the European market. Currently freelancing through Pampa Devs — his software studio — and open to new roles. ## Experience - Founder & Software Engineer/Architect, Pampa Devs (Current) — His software studio — internal enterprise platforms (support/ticketing + ERP) in .NET & React, and web and e-commerce delivery for small and mid-sized businesses on Azure. https://pampadevs.com - Senior Product Engineer, Kota.io (Oct 2025 – Jul 2026) — Health-insurance infrastructure for the European market: shipped the platform’s intent layer (enrollment, policy amendment, dependents, renewal), delivered integrations across nine insurers, moved its webhooks to an event-driven V2, and led the company-wide .NET 10 upgrade. https://kota.io - R&D Engineer (contract), Airia (Jun 2025 – Oct 2025) — Built web, console and on-premise applications in .NET 9, integrated multiple AI providers into production workflows, and owned the architecture and CI/CD design for new projects. https://airia.com - Lead Software Engineer, ADP Brazil Labs (Aug 2024 – Jun 2025) — Led architecture and planning for legacy modernization across .NET Framework and .NET Core, taking automated test coverage on legacy projects from 0% to 80%. https://www.adp.com - Partner (side venture), ROLÊ Entretenimento (Oct 2023 – May 2025) — Events and nightlife promotion platform — owned the web and mobile architecture and delivery. https://roleentretenimento.com - Head of Technology, Dietbox (Aug 2022 – Aug 2024) — Led a 13-person technology and UX organization — engineering, QA, UX and support. Introduced Scrum and trunk-based development, cutting lead time from a month to a week and a half, and cut monthly cloud spend by 21%. https://dietbox.me - Senior Software Engineer, Dietbox (Sep 2020 – Aug 2022) — Migrated the legacy platform from .NET Framework 4.7 on Windows App Service to .NET 6 on Linux, and established CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps. https://dietbox.me - Senior Software Engineer & Consultant, Poatek (Jun 2020 – Sep 2020) — Backend and DevOps work for multiple clients using Azure, AKS, Terraform, Vault, .NET Core and React. https://poatek.com - Software Engineer, Dell (Nov 2018 – Jun 2020) — Built an automated regression-testing application for Dell’s interactive voice response system, replacing a month of manual testing, and a sales-rep tool that automated customer eligibility checks. https://www.dell.com - Development Lead, Vox Game Studio (Dec 2015 – Nov 2018) — Promoted from intern to development lead; ran development, code review, testing and releases for a financial-education platform, and designed its core architecture in Unity3D / .NET. ## Skills - Languages: C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Python - Backend: .NET / ASP.NET Core, Node.js, EF Core, SignalR, MassTransit, gRPC, DDD, TDD - Frontend: React, Vue, Next.js, Vite, Tailwind - Architecture: Event-driven, CQRS, Modular monoliths, REST / HATEOAS, Transactional outbox - Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure, AWS, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Caddy - Data & messaging: PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, Redis, RabbitMQ / AMQP - Leadership: Team building, Mentoring, Scrum / Kanban, Trunk-Based Development, DORA metrics, Roadmap & budget ## Education - MBA, Business Management — Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Aug 2023 – Oct 2026 · in progress) - Postgraduate Program, Software Engineering — Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Feb 2021 – Oct 2022) - B.S., Digital Games — Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Mar 2013 – Jan 2018) - Spoken languages: Portuguese (native) · English (advanced) ## Contact - Email: contato@pampadevs.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipe-allmeida - GitHub: https://github.com/felipe-allmeida ## FAQ ### Is Felipe de Almeida open to new opportunities? Yes. He is available now and actively looking for Staff or Principal Engineer roles, and for Head of Engineering / CTO positions. He works remotely and is open to roles in both European and US time zones. The fastest way to reach him is email (contato@pampadevs.com) or LinkedIn. ### What is Felipe working on right now? He is freelancing through Pampa Devs, his own software studio, building internal enterprise platforms in .NET and React — a support and ticketing system, and an ERP replacing legacy internal tools. He remains open to full-time roles. ### What kind of company and work is Felipe looking for? Early-stage startups and scale-ups. He wants to build products and take an active part in building the business, not only the code, and he is drawn to services at scale — where the work reaches a lot of people. The reach of the problem matters more to him than the industry it sits in. ### Can Felipe work in Europe or the US? Does he need visa sponsorship? Remotely, yes — that is how he already works with companies abroad, contracting from Brazil, most recently for Kota.io in the European market. He is Brazilian and based in Brazil, and does not hold an EU or US work permit, so an on-site role in either would require visa sponsorship. He would consider relocating for the right opportunity, but remote is what he is looking for. ### Does Felipe have real distributed-systems experience? Yes, and this site is the evidence rather than a claim about it. Pulse runs event-driven .NET services in production: SignalR presence over a Redis backplane, a RabbitMQ transactional outbox so a publish and its business write commit atomically, a separate worker process consuming those events into Postgres, and OpenTelemetry traces across the whole path. The source is public at github.com/felipe-allmeida/pulse. ### How many years of experience does Felipe de Almeida have? More than 12 years, starting in 2015 and spent almost entirely on .NET platforms. The path runs Vox Game Studio (development lead), Dell, Poatek, Dietbox (senior engineer, then Head of Technology), ADP Brazil Labs (lead engineer), Airia and Kota.io (senior product engineer). Roughly the last four of those years were in lead or head-of roles. ### Does Felipe have engineering leadership experience? Yes. As Head of Technology at Dietbox he led a 13-person organization spanning engineering, QA, UX and support, introduced Scrum and trunk-based development — cutting lead time from a month to a week and a half — reduced monthly cloud spend by 21%, and reported KPIs and DORA metrics to the executive team. He was also Lead Software Engineer at ADP Brazil Labs, leading architecture and planning for legacy modernization, and he founded and runs Pampa Devs. He sets technical direction, mentors, and hires while staying hands-on in the code. ### What is Felipe de Almeida’s education, and what languages does he speak? He holds a B.S. in Digital Games and a postgraduate degree in Software Engineering, both from Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, and is completing an MBA in Business Management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He speaks Portuguese natively and English at an advanced level. ### Where is Felipe based, and does he work remotely? He is based in Porto Alegre, Brazil (GMT-3) and works remotely. GMT-3 overlaps both the European and the US working day, and he is open to roles in either time zone. ### What is Felipe de Almeida’s main technology stack? C# and .NET / ASP.NET Core on the backend, TypeScript and React on the front end. Around them: PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ and SQL Server for data and messaging; Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure and GitHub Actions for infrastructure and CI/CD; OpenTelemetry for observability. Practices: event-driven architecture, transactional outbox, DDD and TDD. ### Is this portfolio really a live system? Yes. Opening the page joins a real presence set over a WebSocket, puts a dot on a shared world map, and publishes a visit event through the backend described above. The metrics on the /live dashboard are that system reporting on itself — not fixtures, and not a recording. --- Source: https://felipealmeida.tech/about