Thiago Lima
Software Engineer · Silicon Valley
I've been building software for over a decade—from nuclear medicine ERPs in Brazil to micro-frontends at Adobe. Distributed systems, cloud architecture, and the art of making complex things feel simple are what get me out of bed in the morning. When I'm not coding, I'm probably chasing waves or lapping a race track in an actual car.
The Craft
I've spent over a decade deep in distributed systems and cloud architecture. AWS is my home turf—three certifications deep, including Solutions Architect Professional—and I've built everything from Java Spring Boot microservices to serverless pipelines with Lambda and CloudFormation. On the front-end side I live in React, TypeScript, and Node—building micro-frontends and performance-critical UIs at Adobe. I've shipped things that scaled, broke things that taught me, and automated everything in between with Docker and infrastructure as code.
The AI Era
We're living through one of the most exciting shifts in software engineering. AI isn't replacing the craft—it's amplifying it. I've gone deep: building personal projects that use AI to automate infrastructure, monitor my stock and options positions, generate alerts, and surface trading insights. I'm passionate about the stock market and options trading, and AI is turning me into a better trader and a faster builder at the same time.
At work I've shipped AI integrations too—like the "Form Ninja" hackathon project at Adobe that won Best Innovation and Best Presentation—but it's the personal projects where I really push the boundaries. I'm becoming a Claude expert, pairing with AI daily to ship things I never would have attempted solo.
This page? Built with Claude Code. The future of programming is collaborative, and I'm all in.
Outside the Terminal
Surfing keeps me humble—the ocean doesn't care about your deployment pipeline. Track days keep me sharp—there's nothing like pushing a real car to its limits to clear your head. I moved from Paraíba, Brazil to San Diego to San Jose, picking up stories along the way. These days I'm a family man—married with two kids—and somehow still finding time to chase waves and lap times between school runs.