Marcos Soares – Slipmp – Staff Software Engineer @ Tesla · Distributed Systems · Go

About

Engineering focus

I operate at the intersection of architecture, reliability, and organizational alignment — driving engineering standards, CI/CD maturity, and cross-functional execution in high-availability environments.

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures, fault-tolerant pipelines, and real-time machine telemetry at manufacturing scale.

Cloud-native infra

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes — from legacy modernization to fully automated Linux deployments.

Leadership

Led global teams of 20+ engineers; mentorship, CI/CD standards, and delivery at scale.

Manufacturing systems

Integrating hardware, controls, and software for uptime-critical production lines.

Experience

Career highlights

Tesla · Cox Automotive · Q4 Inc · and earlier roles across Brazil and North America.

Tesla

Jan 2020 – Present · 6+ years

San Francisco Bay Area · Fremont, CA

One company, multiple chapters — from vehicle fulfillment and energy digital experience to 4680 cell manufacturing software.

Staff Software Engineer · Cell Manufacturing

Jun 2022 – Present

Lead architecture of distributed systems supporting 4680 battery cell manufacturing lines.
High-throughput Go microservices on Kubernetes; event-driven telemetry and production data pipelines.
Manage two software teams including Senior and Staff Distributed Software Engineers.

Software Engineering Manager · Digital Experience – Energy

Aug 2020 – May 2022

Managed 20+ engineers across 30+ production apps for Solar, Powerwall, and Megapack.
Modernized legacy Windows apps to Linux Docker deployments with full automation.

Software Engineering Manager · Digital Experience – Vehicle

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020

Led global teams on vehicle fulfillment platforms enabling 300k+ deliveries per quarter.
Established CI/CD pipelines and operational maturity for customer-facing systems.

Software Engineering Manager

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

Cox Automotive · Toronto, Canada

Managed 14+ engineers delivering enterprise dealership platforms across North America.
Company-wide CI/CD with Jenkins; architecture modernization initiatives.

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2014 – Apr 2017

Q4 Inc. · Toronto, Canada

Multi-tenant CMS for investor relations — clients included Visa, Salesforce, Twitter, Kellogg's.
AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, Lambda); CI/CD with TeamCity and Octopus.

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