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Two practices,
one person.

Felipe F. Scalco
Felipe F. ScalcoSoftware engineer & photographer
Based in
Kyoto, Japan
Experience
8+ years in software development
Primary stack
Ruby on Rails & .NET Framework
— A note

Senior software engineer, born in southern Brazil. Eight-plus years building backends, APIs, integrations, and the quiet parts of systems where reliability actually lives.

I hold a Bachelor's in Computer Science from UCS and completed an MBA in Software Architecture and High-Scale Solutions. Day to day, that means Ruby on Rails, .NET, AWS, Azure, and production tradeoffs.

Outside work, I am usually behind a camera or planning the next walk. Photography became its own kind of attention: slower than code, less deterministic, and useful for different reasons.

The practice of photography is close to the practice of engineering: the tool changes, but the attention does not.
The short version: schools, jobs, cameras, and a few years that mattered more than others.
2026
Now

Senior backend engineer + Japan chapter

Working remotely as a software engineer while studying Japanese and collecting slower frames around Kyoto.

2024
Education

MBA, Software Architecture

High-scale systems, event-driven design, distributed data, and the hard parts of keeping software understandable.

2021
Job

NetEngine

Started working as a Senior Software Engineer for an Australian company.

2021
Education

Bachelor of Computer Science completed

Graduated from Universidade de Caxias do Sul.

2020
Job

2020 Inc

First remote job for a Canadian company.

2017
Job

Promob Software Solutions

First job as a software engineer.

2016
Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Started the Computer Science graduation at Universidade de Caxias do Sul.

What I reach for when a project starts, and what I'm reaching for when nobody is watching.
01

APIs & backends

Rails and .NET core, event-driven integrations, relational data, and background jobs.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • .NET
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Sidekiq
02

Cloud & DevOps

The invisible work: containers, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure that survives real traffic.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions
03

AI-assisted engineering

Using AI as a practical accelerator for code review, debugging, documentation, prototyping, and learning without handing off engineering judgment.

  • Codex
  • ChatGPT
  • Prompting
  • Code review
  • Prototyping
i.

The engineer, on a weekday

Designing APIs and event pipelines for products that need to keep running when nobody is watching. Most of the craft is in what you do not build.

ii.

The photographer, on a weekend

Walking slowly, waiting for the light, and trying not to take the obvious photo. There is just the frame and whether it feels honest.