Luan Guimarães

CTO · Software Architect · Engineering Manager

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CTO and software architect with a strong background in distributed systems, data platforms, and reliability engineering. I’ve built and scaled infrastructure supporting millions of users, worked on core database and platform technologies, and led engineering teams in high-growth environments. My work is deeply influenced by open-source culture, SRE practices, and the belief that robust systems emerge from strong teams, clear processes, and architectures designed to operate reliably under real-world constraints.


Work Experience

CTO & Co-Founder

deX Labs | 2023 – 2025

Data engineering platform focused on ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observability.

  • Defined and led the technical vision, system architecture, and engineering culture.
  • Designed distributed, event-driven data pipelines and orchestration systems.
  • Built and scaled the engineering team, delivery processes, and platform reliability.
  • At the end of 2025, the company was aqui-hired by Nubank to accelerate and give traction to its data and AI initiatives.

CTO & Co-Founder

Sinkove | 2023 – Present

AI-driven medical imaging company focused on improving healthcare workflows.

  • Led system architecture, AI infrastructure, and engineering strategy.
  • Designed scalable, secure, and compliant data and ML platforms.
  • Worked closely with product, research, and clinical stakeholders.

Senior Platform Engineer

TimescaleDB (now TigerData) | 2022 – 2023

Cloud-native timeseries database built on PostgreSQL.

  • Worked on core platform and infrastructure components for large-scale time-series workloads.
  • Contributed to reliability, performance, and operational improvements in distributed database systems.

Staff DataOps Engineer

Sanar | 2021 – 2022

Healthcare education and technology company.

  • Designed and implemented cost-efficient data platforms on AWS.
  • Built internal tooling, libraries, and IaC foundations for analytics teams.
  • Established CI/CD, observability, and operational standards.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Wildlife Studios | 2018 – 2021

One of the world’s largest mobile gaming companies.

  • Worked on global-scale Kubernetes infrastructure supporting millions of daily users.
  • Architected multi-region, multi-cluster platforms using Kubernetes, Cilium, Vault, and Terraform.
  • Led internal platform development for cluster, networking, and reliability operations.
  • Built observability, incident response, and SRE practices at scale.

DevOps / Machine Learning Engineer

Hacklab | 2017 – 2018

Civic technology and social participation platforms.

  • Developed distributed Python systems for opinion clustering and analysis.
  • Implemented Celery-based distributed processing pipelines.
  • Applied PCA and k-means models to large social datasets.

Software Engineer Researcher

LAPPIS · University of Brasília | 2013 – 2018

  • Backend development for multiple open-source platforms.
  • Core contributor to the Brazilian Public Software Portal (SPB).
  • Designed on-premises cloud infrastructure using OpenNebula and Rancher.
  • Researched and benchmarked open-source virtualization technologies.

Projects

deX Labs Platform

Commercial Platform · CTO & Co-Founder

Unified data engineering platform for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observability. Designed and led the architecture of distributed, event-driven systems with strong focus on reliability, scalability, and developer experience.

Sinkove AI Platform

Healthcare AI · CTO & Co-Founder

AI-driven medical imaging platform integrating data pipelines, model serving, and clinical workflows. Responsible for system architecture, ML infrastructure, and operational reliability.

Bigbang

Internal Platform · Wildlife Studios

Global multi-cluster Kubernetes platform for production environments. Architect and lead developer. Stack: Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, etcd, AWS, Helm.

Ixu

Open Source

Prometheus exporter for GitLab metadata. Architect and main developer using Python, OpenMetrics, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Pushing Together

Open Source · Civic Tech

Opinion-gathering platform with anti-manipulation clustering. Responsible for ML models and infrastructure.

Information

Talks & Publications

  • eBPF Summit · How Wildlife Studios built a global gaming infrastructure with Cilium
  • Cloud Native Ireland · Global gaming infrastructure with Kubernetes
  • Cilium Blog · Global multi-cluster gaming infrastructure