Lucas Pinto
Lead Staff Software Engineer
# Highlights
- Won an Engineering Emmy for Evercast — a platform I led for over 4 years
- 15 years in — from scrappy startup builds to Fortune 100 production systems
- Remote-first for over a decade, long before it was cool
- Currently leading teams at a Fortune 100 media giant that you've definitely heard of — building systems that move billions
# My thoughts...
## On People & Software
- Half my job is engineering. The other half is translation — turning system diagrams into business cases.
- Software is built by people. I've seen brilliant code fail because the team couldn't talk to each other.
- I once built a "perfect" system that nobody used. Turns out I'd solved the wrong problem.
## On AI & the Future
- AI changes what "senior" means. Pattern recognition matters less; knowing what to build matters more.
- I've gone from prompting AI to orchestrating agents. The skill now is designing systems where AI components supervise each other.
- The dev lifecycle hasn't changed in decades. AI is rewriting all of it — not just the coding part.
## On Architecture & Scale
- The systems I'm proudest of are simple enough that I could explain them to my kid someday.
- I've watched teams spend months optimizing for scale they never hit. Build for today, architect for tomorrow.
- The best architecture isn't the cleverest one—it's the one your team can debug at 3am.