Software Engineer

Caio Lins

Tokyo, Japan

Make it worthwhile.

About

Hey there! I'm Caio.

I'm currently building next generation music creation tools with the help of AI.

I have 10+ years of experience building software across various industries.

I enjoy turning ambiguous problems into shipped systems, collaborating closely with product and customer teams.

Experience

Selected roles and impact

  • Jan 2025 - Present

    Software Engineer ยท Soundraw Inc.

    Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid)

    • Built and shipped mobile APIs for AI music creation and delivery.
    • Owned improvements to soundraw.io, including new genres and a smoother creation flow.
    • Generated 20,000+ songs in one week to support a $150K+ enterprise deal.
    • Cloudflare
    • Domain modeling
    • FFmpeg
    • Linear
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Vue
    • Heroku
    • Postgres
    • MongoDB
    • AI Agents
  • May 2023 - Nov 2025

    Software Engineer ยท Kadric Smart Solutions

    Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid)

    • Guided customers through a Working Backwards process to turn business goals into technical specifications.
    • Shipped logistics and autonomous-forklift management tools with React, TypeScript, MUI, and deck.gl.
    • Delivered gateway, kiosk, and Android owner/kiosk-mode prototypes across Java/Spring, Node.js, and Vue.
    • Planned and delivered a gateway project on a 2-month schedule, including Japanese client communication and documentation.
    • Consulting
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • Vue
    • Java
    • Spring
    • MUI
    • deck.gl
    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • Japanese
    • Docker
    • Atlassian
  • Jan 2020 - Apr 2023

    Data Reliability Engineer ยท Moneytree

    Tokyo, Japan (Remote)

    • Owned reliability of financial data aggregation pipelines pulling from 3,000+ banks for 5,000,000+ users.
    • Optimized dozens of integrations, reducing monthly running costs by 30%+.
    • Built hundreds of monitoring/alerting tools, SQL templates, and SOPs to speed up incident response.
    • Web and API scraping
    • API integration
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • AWS
    • Ruby on Rails
    • SQL
    • Redash
    • Sumo Logic
    • Atlassian
    • Slack
  • Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

    Software Engineer ยท Verball

    Sao Paulo, Brazil (Remote)

    • Built voice-driven applications and back-end services for conversational experiences.
    • Node.js
    • JavaScript
    • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
    • MySQL
    • Firebase
    • Actions on Google
    • Google Assistant
    • Designed and implemented time-intelligent dashboards used for after-sales truck parts price revisions.
    • Structured and prepared datasets consumed by pricing dashboards.
    • Microsoft Power BI
    • DAX
    • SQL
    • Python
    • Microsoft Office
  • Jul 2016 - Feb 2019

    Software Engineer ยท MuchMore Digital

    Recife, Pernambuco & Sao Paulo, Brazil (On-site)

    • Delivered CMS and APIs for large battery and automotive clients.
    • Developed chatbot infrastructure and conversational dialogs for customer-facing products.
    • Built data lake pipelines and ETL jobs for FCA Latam, including BI/marketing data views in BigQuery.
    • Integrated Salesforce and Google Analytics APIs and automated recurring data jobs.
    • Contributed to the open-source Zendesk Java Client with new models and wrapper updates.
    • SQL
    • GCP
    • BigQuery
    • Node.js
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
    • Python
    • Linux
    • Git
    • Cron jobs
    • Java
    • MongoDB
    • Play Framework
    • AngularJS
    • Google Maps API
    • Heroku
    • IBM Watson
    • GTM
    • Zendesk Java Client
    • Twitter API

Projects

Selected work

  • Featured

    clins.me

    My personal website and portfolio, including a markdown-powered resume page and curated project highlights.

    • Astro
    • Tailwind CSS
    • TypeScript
    • Markdown
    • Vercel
  • Active contributor to a Matrix bridgev2 project that brings LINE messaging support to Beeper. Contributed bug fixes for concurrency, media handling, and token management, plus UI work on the Beeper themes repo.

    • Go
    • Matrix
    • LINE
    • Beeper
    • Chat
    • Open Source
    View on GitHub
  • Featured

    belle.salon

    Bilingual static site for an eyelash salon in Tokyo. A custom Node.js pipeline scrapes HotPepper Beauty for live content (coupons, staff, reviews), normalizes it into a JSON content model, and Astro renders it with locale-aware routing.

    • Astro
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Playwright
    • i18n
    • Vercel
    • Web Scraping
    Visit site
  • A growing set of Raycast extensions focused on workflow speed, automation, and delightful UX.

    • TypeScript
    • React
    • Automation
    • Productivity
    Explore on Raycast
  • Processed microscopic imagery to improve nanoparticle counting in research labs for CCM304M133 during my M.Sc. at UFABC.

    • Python
    • Jupyter Notebook
    • Computer Vision
    • Research
    View on GitHub
  • Featured

    AnimAR

    AR research on augmenting storyboards and animations for better prototyping; won Best Application (Got HeARt), Metaio Developer Contest 2013.

    • Augmented Reality
    • Research
    • Metaio SDK
    • Android
    • Java
    Read publication
  • An AR board game themed around pillow fights where moving physical blocks repositions autonomous characters to attack and dodge.

    • Augmented Reality
    • Game Development
    • Metaio SDK
    • C++
    View on GitHub
  • An Arduino-powered dish connected to a smartphone game that reacts positively when a child eats, turning mealtime into play.

    • Arduino
    • IoT
    • Unity
    • C#
    • Mobile Game
    • Education
    View project