Daniel Pizetta
Consulting Software Engineer at Mutual Technology
São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolDaniel Pizetta is a consulting software engineer and PhD in Computational Physics with 12 years of experience building full-stack Python solutions for scientific and medical domains, currently applying MRI sequence and software expertise at Oral MR and Adialante. He is the creator of PyMR, a Python framework for programming magnetic resonance systems that integrates instrumentation, networking, UI/UX and test-driven development—work that produced multiple software registrations and is used by collaborators worldwide. Equally at home in research and product delivery, he has led projects and teams at USP and partnered with the University of Minnesota, bringing DevOps, CI/CD and robust dependency handling to laboratory-grade software. An active open-source maintainer, he has contributed backend stability fixes to Spyder and UI/style improvements to QDarkStyleSheet, improving developer tooling used across the scientific Python ecosystem. He combines deep domain knowledge in MR physics with practical engineering—integrating hardware protocols, Qt-based interfaces, and Python APIs—to ship reproducible, testable systems. Outside work he channels his maker instincts into Arduino and 3D printing and volunteers extensively in educational and social causes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doutorado Física Computacional Ressonância Magnética, Doutorado Física Computacional Ressonância Magnética at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (13)
css10
error-handling10
pyqt10
python10
qt10
language-server-protocol9
anaconda9
refactoring9
setuptools8
py8
pypi6
gitlab-ci6
twine6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ColinDuquesnoy/QDarkStyleSheet
Jan 2018 - Aug 2022
A dark style sheet for QtWidgets application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 8 reviews, 304 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the development of a Qt-based stylesheet application, primarily focusing on enhancing its features and functionality. Their work included implementing a function to load Qt APIs from the environment, fixing tab-selected colors, updating resources, refactoring class names, and incorporating changes for Python 2.7 compatibility. The user's contributions spanned the style and example file which indicates a front-end and backend focus.
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spyder-ide/spyder
Sep 2018 - Dec 2024
Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 66 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the backend logic of Spyder, focusing on fixing bugs and improving stability. They addressed issues related to the Language Server Protocol (LSP), preventing errors when the status is null and restarting the server. Additionally, they implemented improvements in handling potential errors from conda commands and modified setup.py to dynamically choose the Qt binding based on an environment variable. These contributions aimed to improve the overall functionality and reliability of the application, especially its dependency management.
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