Isaac de Andrade Staff Software Engineer · Engineering Manager

Isaac de Andrade

Staff Software Engineer · Engineering Manager / Tech Lead

Salt Lake City, UT · Open to remote · US Citizen
+1 385 222 8488 · andradei@proton.me · andradei.com · LinkedIn · GitHub
Portuguese (native) · Spanish (professional) · English (fluent)

Profile

Engineering leader and hands-on engineer with 12+ years delivering production software across fintech, edtech hardware, and SaaS. Most recently led the core platform team at a K-12 school-security company, owning delivery and the shift to agentic AI-assisted development across planning, code review, testing, and deployment. Earlier, built real-time foreign-exchange trading infrastructure for a regional bank and shipped 10+ SaaS products as a technical product manager.

Fluent in Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and SQL; hands-on with Docker, Linux, and CI/CD. Owns a roadmap, a team, and the code — has managed 3 teams of 3-7 engineers and led a 6-person core platform team.

Core Skills

Engineering Leadership & Team Building · Technical Strategy & Architecture · Roadmap Ownership · Agentic AI in the Software Development Life Cycle · Code Review & Quality · Agile / Scrum Delivery · Cross-functional & Stakeholder Management · Hiring & Mentorship · Vendor & Integration Management · Security, Reliability & Incident Response · Product Discovery & Market Fit

Technical Skills

Languages — Go, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, SQL, Shell / Bash, C++ (Qt)

Frontend — HTML5, CSS3, Responsive UI

Backend & APIs — REST API design, Microservices, Socket programming (TCP / UDP), RS-232 serial, mDNS, Serialization (in-house), Background jobs (RabbitMQ, Redis)

Data — MySQL, Data warehousing, Reporting & operational metrics

Infrastructure & DevOps — Linux (administration, networking, production operations), Docker, Virtualization (VMware ESXi, vSphere, Proxmox), Git, Backup & disaster recovery, Monitoring & alerting, Warehouse / IoT station fleet operations

CI/CD & Deployment — GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Octopus Deploy

Practices — Agile (Scrum / Kanban), Sprint planning, Backlog grooming, Code review, Test automation, Hardware QA, Security hardening, Root-cause analysis

AI & Automation — Agentic orchestration across development, code review, automated test generation, deployment, and reporting — Claude Code, OpenCode, Figma MCP.

Experience

Lead Software Developer — Audio Enhancement

K-12 school security & intercom software · Core platform team of 6 · West Jordan, UT
Mar 2023 – Oct 2026

  • Built third-party integrations with Utah sponsored law-enforcement and first-responder dispatch systems, making flagship platform compliant across all school districts in the state.
  • Owned the manufacturing-operations platform behind a fleet of 25+ warehouse stations used by two teams, processing 18,000+ hardware units/year — parts collection, serial-number generation, unit cycle time, defect reporting, and parts traceability across swaps and repairs, plus API access for AI reporting tools — maintained at 100% uptime.
  • Built automated hardware QA software covering 12 feature and stress tests with guided interactive steps, run reports, and log capture; cut the per-unit QA cycle from 15 minutes to 2 minutes and caught 95% of pre-shipment defects.
  • Owned security, backup, deployment, and monitoring for the platform, and coordinated an IT-led migration to virtualized hosts and a new data warehouse with zero unplanned downtime.
  • Drove agentic AI adoption across the entire delivery pipeline — development, code review, test generation, deployment, and reporting — improving PR turnaround by 50% and raising unit-test coverage from 65% to 80%.
  • Built production integrations against company and third-party hardware — intercoms (SIP), access control, and sensors — over TCP / UDP sockets, mDNS, and RS-232 serial, working directly with the Hardware team to define and validate the interfaces.

Technical Product Manager — DevSquad

Software development & product consultancy
Jan 2021 – Mar 2023

  • Managed 3 teams of 3-7 engineers concurrently across 3 client projects, responsible for delivery, quality, and technical direction.
  • Shipped 10+ SaaS products in 2 years, including BoosterHub (1,000+ booster clubs), SoStocked (1,000+ Amazon sellers), and Luminous (a Pangaea brand) — 15% reached product-market fit and all remain in production today.
  • Built and refactored web services for hundreds of concurrent users, peaking at 100,000+ requests per hour at 99% availability.

Full Stack & API Engineer — Zions Bank

Financial services · Investments division
Jan 2014 – Jan 2021

  • Led the team's transition to Agile, introducing backlog, kanban board, ceremonies, and definition of done that became the department standard; identified process inefficiencies across teams of varying size and helped 6 teams cumulatively over 2 years move to leaner, more efficient development and communication systems.
  • Built a real-time foreign-exchange platform covering 25+ currencies, with real-time connectivity to 4 national and international banks — reducing manual reconciliation by 80%.
  • Pioneered microservice decomposition in the Investments platform (3 services), moving deployment from monthly to weekly and reducing change-failure rate to 10%.

Open Source & Writing

  • Open source — 32 merged PRs across 22 upstream projects, including two to the Odin programming language (12k+ stars) adding Linux/POSIX support to the standard library — 35 POSIX headers, 37 files, 1,500+ lines — with the termios port verified by the maintainer against both glibc and musl (#4110 · #4118)
  • Minimal Colors — minimal syntax-highlighting theme for Visual Studio Code, published to the VS Code Marketplace with 6,000+ installs and a 4.8/5 rating (Marketplace · source) · MIT licensed

Education

Brigham Young University — Idaho
Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Technology · 2012 – 2014
Completed in 2 years.

LDS Business College
Associate, Business Management · 2009 – 2011