Caio Carvalho

Overview

Currently at Dovetail Financial, where I lead developer tools with a team of 26. Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 330ms to 161ms. Before that: Despegar and Kavak. Most at home with CLI design and LSP.

Replies on weekday evenings

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Sep 2025 - Present
   Dovetail Financial · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 5.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 775ms to 82ms.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Feb 2022 - Sep 2025
   Despegar · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Staff Software Engineer

   Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
   Kavak · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 739ms to 56ms.
4. Engineering Manager

   Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
   McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   • Led the migration of 77 services to Rust.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 3.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Sep 2015 - Apr 2018
   Embraer · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 6.

Projects

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Education

1. Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires

   Ingeniería, Electronics and Communication
   2006 - 2010