Software Engineering Management
Technical direction, delivery systems and team development — connecting business priorities to maintainable engineering decisions.
Software Engineering Manager · Agent Engineering
Pedro MelloI lead teams building AI systems companies can own.
My focus is Agent Engineering for private companies: reliable agents deployed on sovereign infrastructure, with control over data, models and operations.
I bring the same methodical, product-oriented approach I used across FinTech, DeFi, payment systems and private capital markets.
Engineering leadershipTeams, architecture, delivery
Agent systemsTools, evals, observability
Sovereign by designPrivate, portable, controlled
Current focusEngineering leadership and private AI infrastructure.
Current direction
Agents are software systems, not demos.
For private companies, useful AI must be inspectable, measurable and operable inside infrastructure they control. That requires engineering discipline as much as model capability.
Agent Engineering
Purpose-built agents with explicit tools, evaluation loops, observability and human checkpoints instead of opaque AI wrappers.
Sovereign Infrastructure
Private deployments with controlled data paths, portable models and operational independence from a single platform vendor.
Core strengths
What I bring to difficult engineering work.
These are the principles behind how I make decisions, lead teams and turn uncertain problems into working products.
Systems problem solving
I deconstruct ambiguous problems into constraints, decisions and testable steps — from production incidents to greenfield architecture.
Product-oriented engineering
I connect customer value, business strategy and technical execution so teams build the right system before optimizing the code.
Technology agnostic
The constraint chooses the tool. My background across Python, TypeScript, C# and Solidity helps me avoid framework-led decisions.
Formal foundations
Algorithms, data structures and computational reasoning give me a durable base for designing efficient, scalable software.
Technical leadership
I create clarity around architecture, ownership and delivery while giving engineers the context and trust to do their best work.
Constructive collaboration
Clear communication, empathy and an optimistic mindset make hard technical conversations safer and more productive.
Selected proof
Work grounded in real constraints.
Financial rules, multiple stakeholders, security requirements and production deadlines leave little room for vague architecture.
Web2 ↔ Web3 payment rails
Led a gateway connecting instant cryptocurrency payments, fiat settlement, collateral systems and automated stakeholder splits.
Private capital infrastructure
Built asset-management and distribution software for financial products in a private capital marketplace.
From architecture to the stage
Selected to present our marketplace solution at the Dubai FinTech Summit after helping turn the underlying idea into a working product.
Latest writing
Notes from the systems layer.
Why Every Manifold Sale Must Add Up to Zero
How Manifold uses a zero-sum, append-only ledger to split marketplace payments, reject accounting errors, handle reversals and isolate currencies.
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Stop Mocking S3: How To Truly do S3 Integration Tests Locally for $0
Run reliable S3 integration tests locally with MinIO, Docker and the AWS SDK — without cloud credentials, fragile mocks or infrastructure costs.
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Architecting a Bulletproof CI Pipeline for a Scalable Next.js Project
A practical CI architecture for scalable Next.js projects using linting, formatting, commit checks and single-command integration tests.
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Fixing Docker DNS Resolution Issues with systemd-resolved on Linux
Diagnose and fix Docker DNS resolution failures caused by systemd-resolved on Ubuntu, Debian and other Linux distributions.
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Building a team or a private agent platform?
I’m interested in engineering leadership and agent-system work where privacy, ownership and reliability are non-negotiable.