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Lucas Cunha

Building AI agents and the cloud infrastructure they run on

Senior Engineer with 15+ years across cloud, AI/MCP, and identity. Currently leading DevOps and infrastructure at Civic Technologies.

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  • 15+ years
  • 5 companies
  • CS BSc + MSc

// about

A short introduction

I build production AI agents and the cloud infrastructure they run on. Today I lead DevOps and infrastructure at Civic Technologies — including the Civic MCP, a security control plane that connects AI agents to 95+ enterprise tools with guardrails, audit logging, and secure credential management.

Before the AI focus, I spent 15+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems: full-stack engineering across identity, payments, and on-chain credentials; cloud architecture on AWS with Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps; observability and incident response at scale.

BSc + MSc in Computer Science from UFMG. Comfortable in TypeScript, Node.js, Python, React, and Next.js — and increasingly, in writing the agents that write the code.

Currently

Leading DevOps & infrastructure at Civic. Shipping MCP integrations, exploring advanced agent patterns and skill design.

// experience

Where I've built things

  1. DevOps & Infrastructure Lead

    Civic Technologies· Apr 2025 — Present· Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    • Lead infrastructure, DevOps, observability, analytics pipelines, and scalability across all Civic products
    • Operate AWS at scale: EKS, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, Kinesis — across dev, staging, and production
    • Run Kubernetes (EKS) clusters with automated scaling and GitOps-driven deployments
    • Build CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, Docker, GitHub Actions)
    • Own end-to-end observability — New Relic, CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, distributed tracing — and incident response
    • Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and production reliability

  2. Full Stack Engineer

    Civic Technologies· Nov 2018 — Apr 2025· Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    • Civic MCP (AI): built an AI agent security control plane using MCP to connect agents to 95+ enterprise tools, with guardrails, audit logging, and secure credential management
    • Civic Auth: complete identity and authentication platform (OAuth 2.0, OIDC) on Next.js + React
    • Civic Pass: on-chain identity credentials on Solana and EVM chains — scaled to 1M+ passes issued
    • Civic Wallet: APIs for crypto wallet and payments (Node.js, Serverless, AWS)
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • React
    • Next.js
    • AWS
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • Solana
    • Serverless
    • Vercel
    • Lambda

  3. Developer Consultant

    ThoughtWorks· Jun 2016 — Nov 2018· Greater Belo Horizonte

    • Designed and implemented a Digital Platform for API management (API Gateway/Kong, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, GCP, Kubernetes) — enabling secure, scalable API consumption across teams
    • Developed a Staffing System (Ruby on Rails, React/Redux, AWS)
    • Team technical leadership: coordinated development, drove architectural decisions, mentored team members

  4. Software Engineer

    Imaginie· Mar 2015 — Jun 2016

    • Designed and maintained a web application for distance education (Python/Django + AngularJS)
    • Built a mobile app in Ionic + AngularJS
    • Owned deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD (AWS, Docker, Ansible, New Relic)

  5. Software Engineer

    Samba Tech· Jan 2011 — Feb 2015

    • Built an Online Video Platform (Java/Spring MVC) and a distance education application (Python, Django, JavaScript)
    • Owned infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and platform design (AWS, Nagios, Graphite, Fabric, New Relic)

  6. Software Developer Intern

    Samba Tech· Jan 2010 — Dec 2010

  7. Undergraduate Researcher

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais· Jan 2008 — Dec 2009

// skills

What I work with

Items in green are where I'm most experienced; the rest is solid working knowledge.

AI & Agents

  • Claude Agent SDK
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • AI Agents
  • Claude API
  • Prompt Engineering
  • RAG / Embeddings
  • Vector DBs

Cloud & Infra

  • AWS
  • EKS
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Helm
  • Vercel
  • Redshift
  • CloudFront
  • RDS
  • WAF
  • Lambda
  • DynamoDB
  • S3
  • CloudFormation
  • EC2
  • Kinesis
  • Terraform
  • GitOps
  • GCP

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Java
  • Ruby

Frameworks

  • Next.js
  • React
  • Express
  • Django
  • Tailwind CSS
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Hono
  • Fastify
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Spring MVC

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • New Relic
  • CloudWatch
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Distributed tracing (Jaeger, Tempo)
  • Loki
  • Datadog

Architecture & APIs

  • Microservices
  • REST APIs
  • Event-driven (Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge)
  • API Gateway / Kong

Identity & Web3

  • OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
  • JWT
  • Solana
  • EVM chains

Engineering Practice

  • System Design
  • API Design
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Technical Leadership
  • Mentoring
  • Code Review
  • Incident Response
  • Architecture Reviews
  • Cross-team Collaboration
  • Technical Documentation
  • Cost Optimization
  • Capacity Planning
  • On-call
  • TDD

// p.s. probably forgot a few :)

Anthropic Certifications

// education

Where I learned the fundamentals

  • Master's degree · Computer Science

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

    2011 — 2013

  • Bachelor's degree · Computer Science

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

    2007 — 2010

// contact

Let's talk

Belo Horizonte, Brazil