About
A people leader who still speaks engineering.
I am Augusto Verzbickas, an Engineering Manager based in São Paulo, Brazil, with senior software engineering depth.
My career has covered the full shape of software work: writing code, working with customers, managing scope, hiring and developing engineers, founding a software company, building products from zero, and leading technical decisions inside established systems.
Today, I work remotely as a Senior Software Engineer at FullStack Labs, supporting LCvista, a US LMS and compliance platform for accounting firms. My day-to-day work is close to a Tech Lead role: I help a five-engineer team evaluate technical options, validate approaches, and ship product changes in a complex environment. I do not formally manage engineers in this role; my contribution is technical leadership through architecture, research, planning, and execution support.
I lead with regular, direct communication. I want engineers to have the context, decisions, and support needed to make progress, and I treat early blocker removal as a practical part of delivery management.
Before that, I was an Engineering Manager at Eveclass, where I joined as the first engineering hire and helped build a white-label online education platform from day one. The first usable version launched in about 8 months, and the product grew into a broad system with more than 50 modules for content, sales, users, websites, payments, streaming, and learning resources.
Earlier, I founded Shift Code, a software house that delivered more than 100 projects across many industries. The company grew to 12 people at peak, including 11 engineers I managed directly. That experience shaped how I think about leadership: teams need clarity, trust, technical standards, and a leader who understands customers, tradeoffs, motivation, and business reality.
Leadership philosophy
Create the conditions for good work.
I see engineering management as a way to make good technical decisions repeatable. Clear priorities, healthy review habits, honest planning, useful feedback, and enough context help engineers own outcomes rather than simply complete tasks.
I stay close enough to the work to understand progress and resolve dependencies before they become delays. The aim is not constant oversight; it is to give the team the confidence and room to move.
My founder background makes me practical. I care about architecture and maintainability, but I also know that software exists inside constraints: customers, time, money, hiring, operations, and market pressure.
At Shift Code, we could not always compete on salary, so we built retention and motivation habits around performance bonuses when possible, regular 1:1s, and transparency about company and project decisions.
At Eveclass, with a limited hiring budget, we recruited people with potential and mentored them into strong engineers. Many later became senior engineers at other companies.