Augusto Bennemann
Software Engineer at Universal Yums
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAugusto Bennemann is a pragmatic Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in WordPress and WooCommerce, building custom plugins, pixel-perfect themes, and end-to-end performance optimizations. He combines strong backend skills in PHP, MySQL and Linux with modern front-end work using React/Next.js, and has improved large-scale e-commerce reliability and conversion through caching, server tuning, and checkout UX enhancements. A thoughtful remote collaborator, he excels at async communication, documentation, and independent deep work that ships measurable results like faster Page Speed scores and reduced hosting costs. Augusto contributes to open-source projects—having enhanced BigBlueButton’s HTML5 client with webcam and screenshare integrations—and brings practical tooling experience (Redis, nginx, Composer, Ansible) to improve developer workflows. Always learning, he balances quick iterative delivery with attention to security and observability, and recently expanded into climate-focused software practice.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Software for Climate, Software for Climate at Terra.doBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
webrtc10
react10
kurento10
websocket9
html9
conferencing8
collaboration8
video-conferencing8
git7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Complete open source web conferencing system.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Augusto primarily contributed to the HTML5 client for the BigBlueButton web conferencing system, focusing on features related to video and screensharing. Their work included implementing webcam sharing, screen sharing functionality, and integrating with the Kurento media server for video processing. They also addressed bug fixes and made adjustments to the video layout and handling of streams.
kurentobigbluebuttonjavascriptcollaborationvideo-conferencing
gutobenn/woocommerce-correios-1
Nov 2018 - Sep 2023
Correios shipping to the WooCommerce WordPress plugin
Contributions:9 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 10 months
correioswordpress-apiwordpresswoocommercewordpress-woocommerce-plugin
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