Felipe Augusto Rieck

Staff / Principal Full-Stack Engineer

Staff / Principal-level full-stack engineer with deep experience building user-facing web products across frontend, backend, APIs, and cloud platforms. Strong focus on React, TypeScript, Node.js, product engineering, and hands-on technical leadership.

Summary

Experienced in building scalable SPA applications, designing reusable UI foundations, and delivering production-ready features with strong attention to usability, quality, and execution speed. Known for taking ownership from concept to delivery, improving engineering clarity, and shipping reliable product experiences in fast-moving environments.

Core Competencies

Staff-Level Technical LeadershipFull-Stack Product EngineeringReactTypeScriptNode.jsFront-End ArchitectureSPA DevelopmentUI Component SystemsAPI DesignPostgreSQLCloud ArchitectureAWSCI/CDProduct OwnershipTechnical MentoringCross-Functional Collaboration
Additional Technologies
JavaAngularSpring BootPHPRabbitMQC#ASP.NETDocker

Experience

Full-Stack Engineer

Radity · May 2026 — Present

Remote

  • Joined an insurtech engineering team as a senior full-stack contributor, brought in for broad product engineering experience, technical maturity, and leadership potential.
  • Contributing across modern backend and frontend systems while ramping into the business domain, architecture, and delivery practices.
  • Working with Node.js, Fastify, TypeScript, Python, React, Next.js, TanStack, and Temporal in a product environment where reliability and maintainability are central.

Node.js • Fastify • TypeScript • Python • React • Next.js • TanStack • Temporal

Engineering Director (Hands-On Contract Role)

Medome · Nov 2025 — Jan 2026

Remote

  • Worked hands-on across Node.js and React-based systems to help deliver user-facing product improvements in a fast-moving health-tech environment.
  • Contributed to product delivery across backend and frontend, balancing implementation speed, usability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Partnered with product and engineering stakeholders to improve prioritization, technical decision-making, and execution quality across multiple initiatives.
  • Helped teams unblock implementation, align technical direction, and deliver scalable product features with stronger engineering consistency.
  • Supported the evolution of cloud-based architectures and engineering practices to improve reliability, delivery effectiveness, and product stability.

Node.js • TypeScript • Next.js • React • Tailwind • REST APIs • TDD • GCP

Founder & Principal Software Engineer

FARSystems · Oct 2025 — Present

Remote

  • Founded and operate an independent software engineering consultancy serving international product organizations, personally delivering full-stack development, software architecture, technical leadership, and platform modernization.
  • Work with distributed client teams from discovery and solution design through implementation, testing, code review, and production delivery across web applications, SaaS platforms, cloud systems, and AI-enabled products.
  • Apply AI-assisted and agentic workflows with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and LLMs to accelerate delivery while retaining full responsibility for architecture, security, code quality, and final technical decisions.

Node.js • TypeScript • React • Angular • PHP • Python • GraphQL • REST APIs • SQL/NoSQL • Docker • AWS • Azure • Claude Code • Cursor • Codex

CTO & Co-Founder

AlvoUP · Jul 2025 — Nov 2025

Porto Alegre, RS

  • Co-founded an AI startup focused on lead generation, qualification, and marketing automation, leading the technical direction while contributing hands-on across backend, frontend, integrations, and automation workflows.
  • Designed scalable product and platform foundations spanning Node.js services, frontend applications, APIs, and cloud-based automation pipelines.
  • Defined and implemented AWS-based architecture to support product scalability, system reliability, and rapid iteration.
  • Worked directly on backend systems, frontend applications, and product integrations, balancing delivery speed with maintainability and long-term architectural leverage.

Node.js • React • Angular • Tailwind • Ruby on Rails • PHP • Python • REST APIs • TDD • AI/ML frameworks • Cloud infrastructure

Senior Software Specialist

Atlassian (via e-Core) · Feb 2021 — Jun 2025

Remote, Contractor

  • Built and evolved developer-facing web tools and internal platforms with focus on usability, maintainability, and workflow efficiency.
  • Developed full-stack features using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL to improve internal product usability and reduce friction for developers.
  • Contributed hands-on to internal tooling and platform improvements in a distributed cloud environment, helping teams work more effectively with APIs, integrations, and developer workflows.
  • Partnered on architecture and implementation decisions that improved long-term platform usability, engineering quality, and developer experience.

Node.js • React • Tailwind • Express.js • Next.js • GraphQL • AWS • Postgres • S3 • TypeScript • Docker • Bitbucket • CI/CD pipelines • Forge • Connect • TDD • REST APIs • MVC frameworks

IT Consultant

Getnet Brazil · Nov 2020 — Feb 2021

Porto Alegre, RS

  • Supported complex payments and credit card initiatives by helping technical teams evaluate architectural approaches and engineering best practices.
  • Contributed to strategic technical decision-making with emphasis on scalability, architecture quality, modernization, and future cloud adoption.
  • Represented the company in the evaluation of cloud providers as part of the migration of on-premise services to a public cloud architecture.

Architecture assessment • Cloud migration • Payments systems

Senior Software Architect

Neogrid · Mar 2019 — Nov 2020

Porto Alegre, RS

  • Led frontend and backend architecture decisions for business-critical systems built for strategic customers in the Special Projects division.
  • Drove technical initiatives across teams, guiding architecture patterns, implementation approaches, and engineering standards for complex product environments.
  • Led the rollout of microservices architecture and mentored engineers across Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, Spring Boot, and Quarkus.
  • Led the front-end modernization of legacy enterprise products, defining a new visual identity and driving the migration from a JSF-based framework to a reusable Angular component architecture.
  • Built a shared UI framework and reusable component foundation that improved product consistency, usability, and development speed across multiple applications.
  • Partnered with product and engineering stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable front-end architecture and better user workflows.
  • Supported cloud adoption and modernization initiatives, helping teams evolve toward more scalable and maintainable architectures.

Java • Spring Boot • Quarkus • SQL • Node.js • NestJS • RabbitMQ • JavaScript • TypeScript • Angular • GraphQL • TDD • REST APIs • MVC frameworks

Software Engineer / Technical Lead / Software Architect

Neogrid, TOTVS & CALDSoft Sistemas · 2007 — 2019

Brazil

  • Progressed through software engineering and technical leadership roles building enterprise products across financial services, logistics, and EDI.
  • Designed and delivered backend, frontend, and integration solutions for business-critical systems requiring reliability, scalability, and operational continuity.
  • Built a strong foundation in full-stack development, software architecture, and technical leadership across JavaScript, Node.js, Java, PHP, SQL, and related web technologies.
  • Led engineering efforts, supported modernization initiatives, and contributed to delivery quality across cross-functional and international environments.

Java • PHP • SQL • Node.js • RabbitMQ • JavaScript • Angular • Hibernate • Spring Boot • C# • ASP.NET • TDD • REST APIs • MVC frameworks • OpenGL

Projects

PRowl

Native macOS menu-bar app that watches your open GitHub pull requests

  • Lives in the menu bar and lists PRs authored by you, awaiting your review, or assigned to you, so you stop checking tabs manually.
  • Sends native notifications for CI status, merge conflicts, review decisions, and PRs ready to merge, each independently configurable.
  • Authenticates via the GitHub CLI or a Keychain-stored personal access token, polling on a configurable interval.

Swift • SwiftUI • GitHub GraphQL API

GitHub ↗ In development

Invoxa

Desktop app for generating professional invoices

  • Full invoice lifecycle, covering clients, suppliers, templates, and incremental numbering, with native PDF export.
  • Bilingual interface (Portuguese/English) with monthly and annual revenue reports and charts.
  • Local-first SQLite storage, with a light, dark, or OS-matched theme for the interface.

Tauri v2 • React • TypeScript • SQLite • Mantine

GitHub ↗ v1.0.0-beta.2

Languages

Portuguese (Native) English (Full Professional) German (Elementary) Spanish (Limited Working)

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science

Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina · 2004 — 2008

Joinville, SC, Brazil