Augusto Pascutti
Principal Software Engineer at PicPay
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolAugusto Pascutti is a Principal Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 14+ years building highly available distributed systems and leading engineering teams across fintech, mobility and consumer platforms. He currently heads Messaging and Streaming Platform efforts at PicPay and has a track record of improving reliability and delivery—introducing CI/CD, AWS IaaC migrations, SOA and metrics-driven cultures that cut costs and accelerated time-to-market. As CTO at Crawly and engineering lead at Easy Taxi he drove real-time streaming, dynamic pricing and payment availability improvements that supported millions of users and sustained 99.99% uptime. A long-time PHP community organizer and co-founder of PHPSP, Augusto also contributes to notable open-source projects like Respect/Rest and Respect/Validation, focusing on server-side architecture, validation robustness and interoperability. He’s passionate about sustainable product development and building healthy engineering cultures that trade heroics for predictable, measurable outcomes. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic “yak shaver” who quietly removes the small obstacles that unblock teams and accelerate delivery.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
English, Portuguese, Spanish, sindarin
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Github Skills (25)
api-rest10
validations10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
http-header10
validation10
php10
rest-api10
zend-framework9
symfony9
symfony-ux9
composer9
exception-handling8
autoload8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Respect/Rest
Mar 2012 - Jan 2018
Thin controller for RESTful applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Augusto primarily contributed to the core logic and functionality of the RESTful application. They implemented support for features like a callback autoloader, HTTP method handling (405 status), and direct PHP stream output. Their changes involved modifications to the router, request handling, and exception management, indicating a focus on the server-side architecture. The user also worked on authorization and content negotiation.
restrestful
Respect/Validation
Dec 2012 - Feb 2016
The most awesome validation engine ever created for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Augusto primarily contributed to improving the validation engine's functionality and maintainability. This included refactoring tests related to Zend Framework validators, fixing issues with the Symfony validator rule, and addressing potential problems with whitespace handling in input strings. The user also focused on code cleanup and dependency management, ensuring the project uses Composer for package management and including necessary dev packages for testing. These changes improved the project's test coverage and compatibility with other libraries.
phpvalidationvalidation-enginefluent-interfacevalidator
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