About Me
Hi 👋
If you don't know me, I'm Tuane (a.k.a Tutti for most people). At this point in my career, I like to call myself a “technologist”, with a talent for people and project management and leadership. To be more specific, I've done years of software engineering, technical leadership, management of engineers, program managers and project portfolio. I also occasionally speak/teach at events and volunteer for local communities and nonprofit organizations.
I'm originally from Brazil (a town near São Paulo), where I got my CS major. I moved out of Brazil to work in London for a while, after that I relocated to Tokyo, where I stayed for 4 years, and currently I'm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California.
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Quipper London team, January 2016
A quick summary of my career
I have a weird story of how I got into programming, but I actually majored in Computer Engineering (imagine CS + some Engineering-specific classes like Mechanics, Chemistry, and a ton of Calculus and Physics), it was a 5-year major.
In 2011 (on my 4th year of college), I started working as a Software Engineer, mainly with web technologies like Java, C#, Ruby on Rails and, Javascript (Coffeescript and jQuery at the time!). Then I went on to work with Android app development at Samsung Brasil, and after that was when I moved to London to be a Ruby on Rails engineer for an EdTech startup named Quipper.
Quipper was acquired by the giant Japanese corporation Recruit Holdings and after about 2 years working for Quipper in London, I decided to try out moving to their new HQ office in Tokyo.
I arrived in Japan in September of 2017, and around October of 2018 I left Quipper to become an Engineering Program Manager at Mercari. There I managed a team called Engineering Office, composed of technical program managers (engineers and non-engineers), working on technical trainings and projects to improve the overall engineering culture at Mercari. At that time, I wrote an article explaining our approach to shaping the Engineering culture in a chaotic environment.
After working with people-centric programs for the engineering division for more than a year, I was invited to start the People Programs team under the People & Culture division, to lead efforts on D&I (Diversity & Inclusion) and L&D (Learning & Development) for the entire company. We solidified our D&I strategy, established some exciting Leadership Development programs to upskill our managers and leaders, and eventually, I became the Group Manager overseeing not only the People Programs team but also Language Education and Global Operations.
Move to the U.S., back to engineering
After about 1 year working under People & Culture (and so many lessons learned), I decided it was time to leave Japan. So I took an internal transfer to Mercari US, moved to California, and moved back to the Engineering department, but this time I was in charge of Technical Program Management, where I built and led a team of TPMs to help organize and scale Mercari US’ Product & Engineering operations.
Shift in direction
At the time I'm writing this last update (March, 2024), it's been roughly 2.5 years since I moved to the U.S. as the Director of Technical Program Management for Mercari US. I recently left Mercari and I'm exploring a few new areas to steer my career in a different direction. Specifically, I'm looking at sustainable development and climate tech. I'll continuously update what I'm working on during this exploration phase on the Projects & Organizations section.
Japan has some of the most beautiful landscapes I have ever seen. I took this photo on the island of Miyajima, near Hiroshima.
I've also participated in the Women@Mercari employee group, which works on cool stuff like this internship program for underrepresented folks.
On the other side
Me delivering a tech talk at a Women Who Code event happening at the Mercari office in Tokyo.
Besides my main job, I like to find time to be involved with local communities and nonprofit organizations. I've been a volunteer Director of Women Who Code Tokyo and organizer of the Lead Dev meetup in Tokyo too.
I mainly helped these communities by organizing events, finding sponsors and hosts, finding speakers, or speaking myself when I have a new talk to put out.
Particularly with Women Who Code, I used to wear multiple hats and engage in all aspects of managing and scaling the community, like managing the social media accounts, connecting with leaders in other countries to share knowledge and organize larger regional events (like WWCode CONNECT Asia!), producing branded swags, onboarding new volunteers, etc. Sometimes I mentored or coached some of the members directly, other times, I'd try to gather people to work on some cool side-project for learning purposes. I actually wrote an article about what we were doing at Women Who Code Tokyo, so check it out if you're interested in more details and some useful links :)
And of course, like any other human being, sometimes I need to disconnect and just spend some time on my random forms of leisure. My favorite activities are hanging out with friends (usually on a hunt for the best brunch places in town!), listening to audiobooks & podcasts, and traveling. Since the COVID pandemic in 2020, I also got more into video games, cooking, and working on side projects.
Contact
You can contact me through my social media accounts or using my Contact form on this website.
My growing collection of souvenir magnets from all my trips