Patricia Freitas

Overview

I've spent 20 years on search and ranking - first at PagSeguro, now at Saffron AI. Brought on-call pages for search down from 31 a week to 1. Most at home with Lucene and A/B testing. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Mar 2023 - Present
   Saffron AI · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Led or co-led 18 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Sit on 7 boards.
   • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
2. Staff Software Engineer

   Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
   Falabella · 2 yr · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Reduced cloud spend on search by 22% in two quarters.
   • Grew the search team from 5 to 27 engineers.
3. Staff Software Engineer

   Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
   Kavak · 2 yr 2 mo · Contract · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Moved 71% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Engineering Manager

   Jul 2017 - Sep 2018
   América Móvil · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Grew the search team from 3 to 29 engineers.
   • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 741ms to 143ms.
5. Staff Software Engineer

   Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
   PagSeguro · 2 yr · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Grew the search team from 3 to 24 engineers.

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Education

1. PUCP

   Ingeniería, Electronics and Communication
   2001 - 2005