Alex Inacio
Staff Software Engineer Quantitative Platform
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Inacio is a software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in backend and distributed systems where correctness, consistency, and operational reliability are paramount. He designs event-driven, low-latency transaction engines and integration layers for mission-critical financial products, including crypto trading and Brazil’s CBDC, often working under tight regulatory and security constraints. Alex blends hands-on engineering—spanning Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, and cloud-native tooling—with technical leadership, mentoring teams and aligning system design to long-term business goals. His open-source contributions include performance and memory fixes to Chromium’s Blink engine and work on high-profile web projects like the WebAssembly site and html5rocks, showing attention to both low-level optimization and user-facing polish. Based in São Paulo, he pairs rigorous systems thinking with pragmatic trade-off analysis, consistently delivering scalable, idempotent, and highly available services. An interesting facet: he has contributed measurable render-performance improvements on devices with constrained memory, reflecting a rare focus on efficiency across both server and client environments.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Guitar Performance, Bachelor’s Degree Guitar Performance at Berklee College of MusicAssociate of Applied Science Mechatronics Engineering Technology, Associate of Applied Science Mechatronics Engineering Technology at Senai São PauloExecutive Certificate Stanford LEAD Business Program, Executive Certificate Stanford LEAD Business Program at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor's Degree Aerospace, Bachelor's Degree Aerospace at Universidade Federal do ABCBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at IMPA Tech
English
Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
user-interface10
webassembly10
web-development10
front-end-development10
site-design9
website-design9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WebAssembly/website
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
WebAssembly website
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the website's frontend, making updates and restyling the header section across multiple pages. They also corrected the image paths. Furthermore, the user added the favicon to enhance the website's appearance. They also made minor textual changes such as the introduction description and tweak line wrap behavior for better mobile user experience, and updated the Windows installation instructions.
webassembly
html5rocks/www.html5rocks.com
Aug 2012 - Oct 2013
....a top-notch resource for web developers
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end development of the website, focusing on content updates, layout adjustments, and the integration of new features. Their work involved editing HTML content, including tutorials and case studies, and modifying CSS for styling and layout. They also made changes related to article content and incorporated features like drop caps and balanced text, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the user experience.
html5notchchrome
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