👋 Hi, I'm Lucas
Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in Elixir and 18+ years building backend systems for high-scale, business-critical platforms.
I specialize in distributed systems, backend architecture, and reliability, with strong experience building financial and transactional systems that operate under heavy load.
🧠 What I work with
Elixir / OTP / Phoenix
High-throughput & distributed systems
Event-driven architectures
PostgreSQL (partitioning, performance, data modeling)
Background processing & async pipelines
APIs, integrations & messaging systems
Observability, performance tuning & fault tolerance
🚀 What I’ve built
Financial systems processing tens of millions of transactions per day
Ledger-based platforms with strong consistency guarantees
Scalable APIs for fintech and high-traffic applications
Internal platforms and tooling to improve developer productivity
Production systems with strict reliability and uptime requirements
🧩 What I value
Clean, maintainable code
Pragmatic engineering decisions
Strong system design over hype
Reliability, observability, and simplicity
Knowledge sharing and mentoring
📫 Let’s connect
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-cegatti-b2b0b3a
💻 GitHub: https://github.com/lucas-cegatti