Philip Scheer

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Engineering & Technology Manager and Solutions Architect with 20+ years in technology, 10+ leading cross-functional, remote-first teams across finance, sports-tech, retail and pharma. Hands-on from strategy and architecture to delivery: real-time systems, microservices, design systems and AI/ML. Fluent in English and Portuguese; intermediate German.

Target roles

  • Engineering Manager / Software Engineering Manager
  • Head of Engineering / Head of Technology / Technology Manager
  • Solutions Architect / Software Architecture Manager
  • Technical Product Manager

Work model

Remote-first (fully remote preferred). Based in São Paulo, Brazil (GMT-3) — convenient overlap with US and European time zones. Experienced working remotely across US, China and Brazil teams.

Leadership experience

Led up to 3 simultaneous departments (Product, Innovation, UX Labs) and 18 concurrent projects. Comfortable with Architecture Review Boards, executive stakeholders, distributed teams and delivery governance from discovery to production.

Core competencies

  • Engineering management & technical roadmaps
  • Solutions architecture: real-time, event-driven, microservices, API/BFF
  • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), FinOps & cost optimization
  • Data platforms: Airflow, dbt, BigQuery, Redshift, CDC
  • AI/ML: generative AI, NLP, AI-assisted engineering
  • Polyglot stacks: Go, Python, Java, .NET, Node, Next.js/React, Flutter

Measurable results

  • Scaled a real-time sports data platform 10x — from 100K to 1M+ concurrent users at sub-300ms P99 — with ~57% lower operating cost.
  • Defined reusable architecture templates that cut delivery time and infrastructure cost across financial-services teams.
  • 50% reduction in database query time at Dexco, lowering compute cost.
  • Led squads of 80+ people and a R$26M+ technology project portfolio.
  • Built and governed an enterprise design system at Dell Technologies, fully remote across US/Brazil.