Caio Ariede is a Staff Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 16 years of experience building and hardening backend systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Tesorio. He specializes in Django and cloud integrations, contributing to core projects like django and cookiecutter-django where he fixed migration, database and cloud storage issues that improve stability in production-ready apps. His open-source work spans GIS-aware Django widgets, image processing tooling, and nuanced test and compatibility fixes—showing a focus on reliability, edge-case handling, and maintainable defaults. With a master's in IT project management, he pairs hands-on coding with process-minded engineering leadership and a knack for quietly fixing thorny platform problems that surface only at scale.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology Project Management, Master's degree, Information Technology Project Management at Universidade do Sagrado Coração
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at Faculdades Integradas de Bauru
Location field and widget for Django. It supports Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and Mapbox
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 187 commits in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Caio primarily focused on enhancing the Django-based location field functionality. Their work involved modifying models, forms, and widgets to incorporate better GIS support using PointField, accommodate default and empty values, and support inline forms. The user also addressed code cleanup and improved the display logic. This included contributions to the project's setup and example project.
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Caio primarily contributed to the backend of the project, focusing on image processing and thumbnail generation functionality. Their work includes maintaining image ICC profiles, fixing transparency issues, and implementing tests to ensure the correctness of image transformations. They also addressed potential exceptions and utilized Django-specific features for file handling.
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