Ivan Lopes

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ABOUT IVAN LOPES

Senior backend engineer who turns fragile Python services into resilient, low-latency micro-systems. Since 2014 I’ve owned code in production for remote teams, and I’m equally at home writing TypeScript or whatever tool best solves the next bottleneck. Impact snapshots • Prevented 1 + customer off-boardings by leading a high-stakes retention project, from concept to launch. • Introduced SLOs with Honeycomb, cutting mean-time-to-resolution 50 % and giving ops dashboards everyone actually checks. • Helped carve critical APIs out of a Django monolith into Flask micro-services, trimming deploy cycles 15 %. • Built risk-analysis plugins that boosted decision throughput 30 % for real-time financial transactions. • Restored a distributed platform to 96 % uptime in one week—five × faster than the original plan. • Created a Formik/TypeScript component system that cuts form build time 35 % across multiple product squads.Work is a means to an end, so I focus on sustainable engineering: clean code, clear SLOs, and hand-offs that let people log off on time. I champion remote-first culture (async docs > office noise) but enjoy flying in for a few days of white-boarding when it moves the needle. Exploring agentic AI to remove toil and give engineers better guard-rails is my next frontier—if you’re doing the same, let’s swap notes.