Jean-Luc Picard

Vice President of Engineering

picard@enterprise.dev +55 11 98765-4321 linkedin.com/in/jeanluc-picard
DOB: 15/03/1990 Nationality: Brasileiro(a) Status: Solteiro(a)
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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

Nexus Technologies — São Paulo, Brazil
Jan 2020 – Present
  • 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

PayRight — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mar 2016 – Dec 2019
  • 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

Atlassian — Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Jun 2012 – Feb 2016
  • 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

ThoughtWorks — São Paulo, Brazil
Jan 2009 – May 2012
  • Led technical delivery for 3 enterprise consulting engagements ($5M+ combined)
  • Championed agile practices and TDD across client organisations

Skills

Education

MBA (Gestão de Tecnologia)

Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
2014 – 2016

Bacharelado em Engenharia de Software

Unicamp
2005 – 2008

Certifications