# Technical leadership and team training · Fael Caporali

> A tech lead from the problem to the delivery: requirements, cadence and deadlines, hiring and training until the team runs on its own. Portuguese or English.

Leading a team from the problem to the delivery: requirements, cadence and deadlines, hiring, and training people until the team runs on its own.

- Designed the hiring process and coordinated a team of five developers ([the story](https://fael.caporali.dev/journey#brickup-lead))
- Trained the team in new quality practices, and the QA who took over my role ([the story](https://fael.caporali.dev/journey#qa))
- Mentored a junior developer and handed over with the team trained and operating procedures in place ([the story](https://fael.caporali.dev/journey#ai))
- Led an international project in English, setting cadence and deadlines between the client and the developers ([the story](https://fael.caporali.dev/journey#techlead))

## A bit of what I've delivered

### AI customer service on WhatsApp, in a regulated market

Tech Lead and Full-Stack Engineer. [The story](https://fael.caporali.dev/journey#ai)

- Designed and built a multi-tenant platform of AI agents, with RAG, an agent evaluation tool and token-based billing, and mapped every requirement of the sector's regulation to the code.
- Set up CI/CD with unit, integration and E2E tests, led a team of five and handed over with the first clients live and the team trained.

### A construction-tech platform

QA Manager and Tech Lead. [The story](https://fael.caporali.dev/journey#qa)

- Joined as QA and went on to lead a team of five developers; ran hiring and trained the QA who took over the role.
- Feature flags and Datadog RUM brought open defects from about 300 to under 100.
- Led the construction-planning agents, from an n8n automation to products still in production.

### A software house: live shopping for high-end fashion and a live-music platform

QA Engineer, then Tech Lead. [The story](https://fael.caporali.dev/journey#techlead)

- Led engineering across three products, in English, between the client, the international team and the Brazilian developers.
- Designed the AWS infrastructure, the move to services and the international delivery integrations; built a React front end and an AI agent that researches each musician and suggests goals for the profile.

## Tools

Jira, Cypress, Cucumber, Gherkin, TypeScript, Docker, Docker Compose, MySQL, GrowthBook, OpenFeature, Datadog, ESLint, Confluence, Python, FastAPI, AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, API Gateway, HubSpot, Asaas, Figma, Excalidraw, Mermaid, Node.js, Express, tRPC, React, Prisma, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Redis, n8n, OpenAI, Evolution API, Nx, Docker Swarm, Traefik, Amazon Lightsail, Amazon RDS, WhatsApp

## Got something to build?

Whatever it is, I'll answer with the path I'd take.

- Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Remote for Brazil and abroad, or hybrid in BH
- Portuguese and English
- Closed-scope projects, contracts or consulting

## What I can build for you

- [AI products and agents, in production](https://fael.caporali.dev/services/ai-agents.md): From an idea or a first prototype all the way to production: agents that work together with human review, WhatsApp agents, RAG knowledge bases, agent evaluation and usage-based billing.
- [From MVP to a product that scales](https://fael.caporali.dev/services/mvp-to-scalable-product.md): I turn MVPs and existing systems into software a team can maintain and grow: monorepo, multi-tenancy, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and cloud architecture.
- [Quality without slowing delivery](https://fael.caporali.dev/services/qa-and-test-automation.md): Test strategy and automation, feature flags and observability, and a QA function that stays with the team after I leave.

## Contact

- E-mail: [fael@caporali.dev](mailto:fael@caporali.dev)
- WhatsApp: [+55 31 99196-2016](https://wa.me/5531991962016)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/faelcaporali/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/FaelCaporali)
- Résumé (Português): https://fael.caporali.dev/cv/fael-caporali-cv-pt.pdf
- Résumé (English): https://fael.caporali.dev/cv/fael-caporali-cv-en.pdf
- Titles: FullStack Dev, QA Analyst, TechLead
- Company: HC Consultorias e Desenvolvimento de Software Ltda · CNPJ 16.900.875/0001-80 · Nova Lima, MG
- Source of this site: https://github.com/FaelCaporali/portfolio
- MCP server for AI assistants: https://fael-caporali.rafaelhon.workers.dev/mcp

Original page: https://fael.caporali.dev/services/tech-leadership