Luiz Tadeu Mendonça
AI Engineer — Agentic Development & GenAI Apps | AI-DLC / Loop Engineering with Claude Code & Kiro | Python · Node.js / TypeScript · AWS · Terraform | 18+ years across SDLC & Distributed Systems · São Paulo — Brazil
AI Engineer applying AI-native development — Claude Code, Kiro, AI-DLC / Loop Engineering — to design, build and ship production-ready systems. That's the newest layer on 18+ years of software engineering, not a fresh start: I began in enterprise integration and packaged software, moved into modern product engineering building web and native-mobile apps, and spent the last years as a distributed-applications architect — cloud and distributed systems on AWS, across regulated industries like financial services, aerospace and energy. My lane is applied GenAI and agentic development, not machine learning research: I build with agentic patterns — tool-calling, RAG, memory, evaluation loops, MCP — and bring the SDLC rigor that turns AI work into production software. Python for AI, agents and backend; TypeScript for the full-stack and web layer.
Experience
Embedded in enterprise engineering teams delivering cloud-native, distributed systems end-to-end — from application code to infrastructure as code — while moving delivery into an AI-native loop with Claude Code, Kiro and AI-DLC / Loop Engineering practices.
- Adopted AI-native development (Claude Code, Kiro, AI-DLC / Loop Engineering) in 2026 to design, build and ship production-ready systems, and structured the practice for team-scale adoption.
- Built an internal knowledge platform with a bidirectional MCP server and semantic search (vector embeddings on Amazon Bedrock), enabling AI agents to both search and create knowledge.
- As tech lead, stood up an oil & gas operator's AWS landing zone and delivered its first modernized workload — an upstream operational-monitoring platform — owning the infrastructure and coordinating a separate consultancy's development across a ~2-year engagement the client renewed on the strength of the deliveries.
- Architected a custom, cloud-native replacement for a SaaS streaming platform — native apps across five platforms (iOS, Android, Tizen, webOS, Apple TV) plus Web, on a BFF + microservices backend, designed for future B2B enablement — from envisioning and team setup through to steering multi-vendor delivery.
- Led engagements across LATAM, presenting architecture and delivery strategy to C-level and technical stakeholders in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Architected and implemented cloud-native solutions embedded within enterprise client teams, operating under legacy, compliance and data-sovereignty constraints.
- Stood up the cloud-native foundation of a tier-1 bank's mortgage-credit domain, migrating it off mainframe and ASPX to a full-stack modern platform — Angular; Kotlin/Spring Boot; EKS, ArgoCD and Istio; RDS, DynamoDB, SQS and SNS.
- Grew from hands-on individual contributor to tech lead of a cross-organization team of up to eight over ~2 years; the open-source foundation kept expanding after my rolloff.
- Built reusable Terraform modules and deployment patterns other engineering teams relied on, applying software-engineering rigor to infrastructure as code.
Owned observability for the sales / subscription journey of a major direct-to-consumer streaming service and its channels — a business-critical revenue path on Angular, Salesforce and Spring Boot.
- Built an end-to-end observability platform integrating AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus and Zabbix into a unified monitoring solution.
- Instrumented the Angular frontend and the Salesforce / Spring Boot backends so the revenue path had first-class visibility across the stack.
Promoted to Consultant, first as an integration architect on enterprise CRM implementation programs, then — the turning point — as an application architect at Accenture Digital, building modern web and native-mobile products. This is where the modern-engineering identity was forged and the distributed-applications architect through-line began.
- Architected the integration layers for enterprise CRM implementation programs, connecting apps, APIs and heterogeneous enterprise platforms.
- At Accenture Digital, architected and shipped modern web and native-mobile products (React, native Android, iOS), leaving packaged software behind for modern product engineering — open source, private-cloud infrastructure, and hands-on distributed-systems design.
- Grew into the distributed-applications architect role carried through to today — solution design and tech leadership on delivery teams, as a senior individual contributor.
The root of the career: an enterprise integration factory. Began in web development, then built and integrated large-scale distributed systems — batch (Informatica PowerCenter ETL) and online / real-time (SOA) — growing from junior to senior analyst.
- Joined as an intern in 2008 while completing the Information Systems degree; from graduating in 2010, grew from junior to senior analyst building enterprise system integrations.
- Built and connected large-scale distributed systems across batch (Informatica PowerCenter ETL) and online / real-time (SOA) integration, wiring heterogeneous enterprise platforms together.
- Delivered across the full SDLC for enterprise clients in regulated sectors — financial services, telecom, e-commerce.
