David Nakamura
Vice President of Engineering
david.nakamura@email.com +55 11 98765-4321 linkedin.com/in/davidnakamura
DOB: 15/03/1990
Nationality: Brasileiro(a)
Status: Solteiro(a)
Professional Summary
Engineering executive with 15+ years of experience scaling technology organisations from 20 to 200+ engineers. Led platform modernisation initiatives generating $40M+ in annual revenue. Proven ability to align engineering strategy with business objectives, build high-performing teams, and drive operational excellence across distributed organisations.
Experience
VP of Engineering
Jan 2020 – PresentNexus Technologies, São Paulo, Brazil
- Lead 120+ engineers across 14 squads delivering core platform serving 5M+ users
- Grew engineering org from 45 to 120 while maintaining 92% retention rate
- Drove platform migration from legacy monolith to cloud-native architecture (AWS/K8s)
- Reduced time-to-market by 60% through DevOps transformation and CI/CD maturity
- Managed $18M annual engineering budget with full P&L accountability
- Established engineering career ladder and promoted 15 engineers to senior/staff level
Director of Engineering
Mar 2016 – Dec 2019PayRight, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Built and led 6 engineering teams (55 engineers) for fintech payment platform
- Delivered PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance enabling $2B+ in annual transaction volume
- Launched mobile payments product contributing $12M ARR within first year
- Implemented OKR framework aligning engineering output to business goals
- Reduced critical incident response time from 4 hours to 15 minutes
Engineering Manager
Jun 2012 – Feb 2016Atlassian, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Managed 3 teams (18 engineers) on Jira Cloud infrastructure
- Led migration to microservices architecture reducing deployment failures by 80%
- Shipped 4 major features contributing to 25% growth in enterprise accounts
- Established on-call rotation and incident management process for 99.95% SLA
Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2009 – May 2012ThoughtWorks, São Paulo, Brazil
- Led technical delivery for 3 enterprise consulting engagements ($5M+ combined)
- Championed agile practices and TDD across client organisations
Skills
- Engineering Leadership
- Organisational Design
- Strategic Planning
- P&L Management
- Talent Acquisition
- Team Building
- Cloud Architecture
- Platform Engineering
- DevOps
- Agile/SAFe
- OKRs
- Stakeholder Management
- M&A Technical Due Diligence
- Vendor Management
Education
MBA (Technology Management)
2014 – 2016Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Bachelor of Software Engineering
2005 – 2008Unicamp
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (2021)
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) (2020)