Caio Lins

clins.me ▪ hi@clins.me ▪ github.com/clins1994 ▪ linkedin.com/in/clins1994

Employment

🎶 Software Engineer ▪ Soundraw Inc.

🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid) ▪ Jan 2025 ~ Present

  • Built and maintained core web applications and APIs powering AI-driven music creation tools designed for accessible, ethical music generation.
  • Introduced AI agent tooling across the engineering team — led evaluation of Cursor, OpenAI, and Anthropic, bootstrapped documentation for a 5-year legacy codebase, and established agentic workflows for issue triage, risk assessment, test automation, and more.
  • Championed AI adoption beyond engineering — set up the Claude team account, trained marketing, customer support, and executive leadership on MCP integrations (Stripe, Linear, Slack, and more), driving near-immediate adoption across the company.
  • Optimized SEO for marketing pages by configuring a Cloudflare Worker and DNS routing to serve Framer-hosted content under the main application domain, including redirect handling from a legacy custom domain.
  • Supported a $150K+ enterprise deal by engineering a pipeline that generated 20,000+ songs in one week, partnering with product and customer success to meet delivery requirements.

🛠️ Cloudflare, DNS, Domain modeling, FFmpeg, Linear, Ruby on Rails, Vue, Heroku, Postgres, MongoDB, AI Agents

💼 Software Engineer ▪ Kadric Smart Solutions

🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid) ▪ May 2023 ~ Nov 2025

  • 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

🌱 Data Reliability Engineer ▪ Moneytree

🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan (Remote) ▪ Jan 2020 ~ Apr 2023

  • 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, coordinating real-time status updates with customer support during outages.

🛠️ Web and API scraping, API integration, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Redash, Sumo Logic, Atlassian, Slack

🗣️ Software Engineer ▪ Verball

🇧🇷 Sao Paulo, Brazil (Remote) ▪ Aug 2019 ~ Dec 2019 ▪ Voice-driven application development.

🚚 Data Visualization Analyst (Internship) ▪ Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp.

🇯🇵 Kawasaki, Japan (On-site) ▪ Apr 2019 ~ Oct 2019 ▪ Time-intelligent dashboards for after-sales truck parts pricing.

🔓 Software Engineer ▪ MuchMore Digital

🇧🇷 Recife, Pernambuco & Sao Paulo, Brazil (On-site) ▪ Jul 2016 ~ Feb 2019

  • 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

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science ▪ Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)

🇧🇷 Recife, Brazil ▪ Feb 2012 ~ Aug 2017

  • Teaching assistant for Linear Algebra (6 months) and Graphics Processing (6 months).
  • Mobile augmented reality researcher with scholarship at Voxar Labs (2 years).
  • Science Without Borders government scholarship program to Japan (1 year).

Non-degree Exchange Student ▪ Shibaura Institute of Technology

🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan ▪ Apr 2015 ~ Feb 2016

Master of Computer Science (Dropout) ▪ Federal University of ABC (UFABC)

🇧🇷 Sao Paulo, Brazil ▪ Aug 2018 ~ Dec 2020

Side Projects

clins.me

Personal portfolio built with Astro and deployed on Vercel.

Matrix LINE Messenger Bridge

Active contributor to a Matrix bridge bringing LINE messaging support to Beeper.

belle.salon

Bilingual static site for a Tokyo salon — Astro, Playwright scraping, Vercel.

Raycast Extensions

A growing set of Raycast extensions focused on workflow speed and automation.

About Me

Professional interests

Software Engineering, Chat, Data Reliability, Web Development, Agile, AI Agents, Helping People

Technologies

TypeScript, Python, AI Agents, AWS, Ruby on Rails, React, Vue, OpenTelemetry, Consulting, Monitoring, Java, SQL, JavaScript, MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, Node.js, Heroku, GCP, Play Framework, Terraform, MUI, deck.gl

Languages

English (Native), Portuguese (Native), Japanese (Conversational)