Lucas Pinto
Staff Software Engineer
# Highlights
- 15 years of experience across startups and enterprise
- Led multi‑team initiatives in both startups and enterprise
- Earned a Engineering Emmy award on a project I was leading
- Mentored and leveled up engineers and peers
# My thoughts...
## On People & Software
- Software is built by people—learn to work with them.
- Code reviews are conversations, not competitions
- The best technical solution is worthless if nobody wants to use it
## On Product & Engineering
- Early prototypes save months of development
- Product and Engineering succeed together, not in silos.
- Understanding the "why" is more important than knowing the "how"
## On AI & the Future
- AI won’t replace engineers, but engineers using AI will replace those who don’t
- AI features should solve real problems, not just showcase new tech
- Clear prompts yield useful outputs; vague prompts yield noise
## On Architecture & Scale
- Simplicity scales, complexity breaks.
- Premature optimization is still the root of all evil
- The best architecture is the one your team can maintain
## On Leadership & Growth
- Staff engineers multiply force
- Technical debt is a business choice—treat it that way.
- The best code is the code you don't have to write
## On Craft & Quality
- Tests are documentation that doesn't lie
- Readable code outlasts clever code.
- Automate everything you do more than twice