Flavio Heleno

Founder

Kahu.io•  March 2023 - Present

Kahu is a Software Supply Chain Security Service that reduces the time and effort needed to vet dependencies.

IT Specialist

Beta Learning•  November 2020 - February 2023

- Guided the creation of a highly-scalable event-driven Service-oriented architecture to handle PIX payments based in RabbitMQ; - Planned and installed a cloud hosting infrastructure based on AWS for a Supermarket Chain to host their e-commerce website and mobile app, with an average 6K req/s; - Managed an Auto Dealership Chain cloud infrastructure migration from Azure to a dedicated server, with CI/CD GitHub Pipelines and Ansible automation, reducing costs by around 10 times; - Coordinated the technical strategy with partners for organic growth and peak dates (eg. Black Friday), ensuring system availability during usage peaks; - Mentored a team of 5 junior developers in development best practices, development process, quality and security; - Collaborated with several team leaders in the execution of the individual development plan of the technical team members;

Chief Reliability Officer

Liber Capital•  June 2019 - November 2020

- Managed the SRE Team, responsible for handling infrastructure security, performance and incidents; - Managed the Support Team, responsible for handling internal and external support; - Coordinated with the Delivery Team to keep track of feature requests and bug reports received by the Support Team; - Supervised the installation of a VPN network using WireGuard to enable secure access to systems and servers; - Supervised the installation of a 3rd Party Security Monitoring in all computers and servers; - Collaborated with the COO to write the company's Information Security Policy, Business Continuity Plan and Data Loss Prevention Policy; - Executed a technical due diligence process in Adianta, now part of Liber Capital;

VP Engineering

Liber Capital•  October 2017 - June 2019

- Recruited and interviewed a diverse team for all technical related positions, raising the size of the team from 4 to 15+ people; - Replaced the informal Development Process with a Kanban-like one, improving delivery pace and reducing team idle time; - Executed the integration with BTGPactual using AWS Peering and RabbitMQ for secure message exchange, enabling fully automated funding operations; - Supervised the integration with JBS S/A and BRF S/A using RabbitMQ and Value Added Networks (VANs), enabling fully automated Supply Chain Finance (SCF) operations;

CTO

Veridu•  February 2013 - September 2017

- Recruited and interviewed a diverse team for all technical related positions, raising the size of the team from 1 to 7 people; - Coded a RESTful API that scraped data from social media providers with a pluggable backend which enabled new providers to be added without much effort; - Coded a rules-based system that was used to score profile data based on signals; - Coded a full development kit in Java, Python, PHP and JavaScript, allowing customers to easily integrate with the API; - Presented multiple technical due diligence processes prior to 3 rounds of seed investments; - Assisted in multiple commercial meetings when technical subjects were brought to the table;