Marcelo Hama
IT Data Engineering Manager TechFin, PISMO
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolMarcelo Hama is a results-driven IT/Data Engineering Manager with 9 years of experience, currently steering global IT and software engineering for Investiments and Interest Management products in TechFin at Visa and Pismo. He leads distributed teams, owns the backlog for non-functional initiatives (performance, security, costs, scalability), and drives operation metrics (KPIs and DORA) while guiding software-architecture decisions. His impact includes cloud-cost optimization (saving over R$1 million/year at Natura &Co), performance improvements, and database modernization (migrating Scylla NoSQL to multi-rack, reducing consistency repair time by 60% and processing time by 30%). Outside industry, he has mentored students as an IT instructor at Centro Universitário FMU (FIAM-FAAM) and FIAP, teaching big data, architecture, and microservices, and holds an MSc in Distributed AI and an MBA, underscoring a blend of technical depth and business acumen. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Marcelo combines hands-on engineering with leadership to deliver scalable, secure fintech platforms while fostering growth through 1:1s and people management.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor (B.Sc.), Computer Sciences, Bachelor (B.Sc.), Computer Sciences at Universidade Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho'Master of Business Administration (MBA, Lato Sensu), Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (MBA, Lato Sensu), Business Administration at FIA Business SchoolMestrado (M.Sc., Stricto Sensu), Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Mestrado (M.Sc., Stricto Sensu), Distributed Artificial Intelligence at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
woocommerce10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
mercadopago10
plugin10
wordpress-plugin10
cart10
documentation10
magento-28
pix8
magento-17
checkout7
opencart7
eclipse6
android-listview6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
marcelohama/cart-woocommerce
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 590 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years
ecommercewordpresswoocommercemercadopagocart
mercadopago/cart-wp-commerce
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
ecommercewordpressphpwoocommercecart
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