My name is Felipe Benevides, a software engineer originally from Brazil and living in Amsterdam 🇳🇱
I fell in love with building digital products 10+ years ago when I first founded a mobile jukebox app called Vitrola in my hometown. We’ve raised some money from angel investors and went full-time on it for 2 years. Even though I failed, I learned so much from it that I decided to keep working with products.
That’s why, for the past years, I’ve been working at some amazing startups in Brazil, building them from scratch and making them reach millions of users. Currently, I’m helping build the best global marketing platform and CRM at Bird as a lead software engineer in the Netherlands.
As a product-minded engineer, I (really) enjoy writing code, discussing product development, experimenting with new technologies and working closely with operations and product teams to make a project a reality. I strongly believe engineers must be close to customers, understanding their pain points.
My current interests involve:
- High-throughput applications
- Distributed systems
- Team dynamics and engineering management
- Programming languages
- Product development
Things I’ve already worked on:
- Programming languages: Java, Ruby, Kotlin, Scala, Golang and Python (not that much, though)
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Docker
- Mobile development: built Android and iOS applications natively or using Flutter
- I’ve done some small frontend development stuff with React and Vue.js
Even though I have my own tech preferences (I love Ruby and Kotlin, don’t tell anyone), I really don’t care which stack I should be working on. I believe that when you have strong fundamentals, you can learn anything. I also don’t mind having adventures on the front-end side.
In my spare time, I talk about surfing, waves, vinyl records, photography, beers, and coffee (tons of it!). That reminded me a need to go on a surf trip soon! 🏝