# Carlo Caratori > Principal Software Engineer @ Upstart Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/carlocaratori Technical Leader and full stack developer passionate about startups and entrepreneurship. My main goal is to be able to build top quality digital products that solve real world problems for users around the world. I've been working for over 8 years in building highly scalable, top quality B2C applications, some with tens of millions of monthly active users. As a former entrepreneur, I try to distance myself from the typical engineer stereotype of just focusing on the technical aspect of product development. I like to get involved as much as possible in the entire product development workflow, from user research to brainstorms and design reviews. It's a good way to help shape product decisions early on with good technical feedback, increasing the chance of successful outcomes. As a Tech Lead, I strive to build a productive team with top quality deliverables. I firmly believe in developer happiness and education as a way to improve not only codebases, but the end user experience as well. I push myself and my team to always keep in mind the business goals when it comes to quality and deadlines, but without compromising on long term maintainability of the actual codebases. At the end, mostly someone that loves the opportunity to learn something new. Skills and Proficiency: React, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Javascript, Go, JQuery, Node.js, Node Webkit, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Python, Bootstrap, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, AWS, Heroku, Digital Ocean, Git, Codeship, C++, C#, PHP. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Upstart Jan 2025 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Upstart Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Tech Lead @ Edmodo Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Working as a tech lead with some awesome frontend and backend developers in both the US and China. I'm responsible for a few different product areas of the Edmodo platform that touch several different codebases and our goal is to provide long term support for those product areas as well as constantly improve the user experience through new feature development. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Edmodo Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ### Software Engineer @ Edmodo Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ### Software Engineer @ Passei Direto Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 ### Co-founder and Lead Web Engineer @ Beni Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Beni is a customer engagement platform designed to help small businesses through attraction and retention of customers. Architected and developed: • Single RESTful backend with Ruby on Rails to serve a web app, native mobile apps, and a native desktop app. • Responsive web front-end based on JQuery and Bootstrap. • Native desktop app based on Node Webkit. Manages entire platform infrastructure on Amazon Web Services, Heroku, and Digital Ocean. As one of three co-founders of Beni, played key role in: • Raising a seed round of financing from and partnering with Cortex Intelligence, Brazil’s leading Big Data and Business Intelligence software company. • Winning a competitive process to enter Startup Rio, a government-sponsored startup acceleration program. At the end of program, Beni was awarded as one of the top five companies among 50 participants. • Achieving great results within the first 18 months, acquiring 100+ small merchants as customers and 10k users. • Exhibiting Beni in the Brazilian Pavilion of TechCrunch Disrupt 2015, in San Francisco. Beni was invited by Sebrae, Brazil's leading supporter of small businesses. ### Software Development Intern @ Banco Modal Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Helped develop and maintain the Bank's risk management software infrastructure using C# and SQL Server. ## Education ### Computer Engineering in Computer Engineering Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro ### Computer Science UCLA ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carlo-caratori-81325182 --- Source: https://flows.cv/carlocaratori JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/carlocaratori/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01