Caio Fernandes
VP Of Technology at Checkers & Rally’s Drive-In Restaurants
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolCaio Fernandes is a seasoned technology executive and VP of Technology with over 20 years of experience turning IT into a strategic advantage across hospitality, manufacturing, and shared services. He currently leads enterprise technology for 700+ Checkers & Rally’s restaurants, driving AI-enabled operations, data-driven decisioning, and scalable digital products that prioritize speed of service and guest experience. A former CIO and global IT leader at Bloomin’ Brands and McDonald’s LATAM, he has a strong track record of large-scale transformations, shared services, and cloud migrations that reduced risk and improved operational metrics. Technically hands-on earlier in his career, he has contributed to prominent open-source Rust projects—ranging from Substrate to rust-clippy and wasm-bindgen—bringing a pragmatic engineering mindset to executive strategy. Fluent in Portuguese, English, and Spanish and armed with an MBA plus executive programs at MIT, he combines data-driven analysis with emotional intelligence to build high-performing teams and deliver measurable business outcomes. Known for integrity, he blends deep operational domain expertise with a developer’s focus on code quality and measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High School Technical Diploma Information Technology, High School Technical Diploma Information Technology at Escola Salesiana São José - ETECDigital Marketing Certificate Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing Certificate Digital Marketing at University of South FloridaMaster of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management at Northern Illinois UniversityBachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de CampinasExecutive Program Management & Leadership Certificate, Executive Program Management & Leadership Certificate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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structures10
decimals10
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parser10
postgresql10
clientside10
testing10
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rust-wasm10
calc10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Mar 2019 - Feb 2026
A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 PRs, 31 comments, 25 issues in 7 years
Contributions summary:Caio contributed to the Rust Analyzer project by adding new language features, specifically the `async` keyword to the parser. They modified several files including `generated.rs`, `items.rs`, `atom.rs`, and test files to accommodate this change. Furthermore, the user implemented tests for the new functionalities, showing a focus on code quality and feature completeness. Additionally, they added an assist that fills struct fields.
compilerfrontendrustlsp-server
rust-lang/rust-clippy
Oct 2019 - Feb 2026
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 reviews, 49 PRs, 204 comments in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Caio contributed extensively to the `rust-clippy` repository, focusing on the implementation of various linting rules. Their work involved reintroducing and modifying `hir::ExprKind::If` statements and other expression kinds within the codebase. They also added, and modified code across multiple files that included files related to arithmetic.
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