Eric Pires
Software Engineer at Artemis Technologies
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolEric Pires is a software engineer from São Paulo with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web systems, from frontend single-page apps to backend services, APIs and containerized deployments. A Computer Engineering graduate from the University of São Paulo, he has driven end-to-end projects at NIC.br including a real-time network-monitoring pipeline he conceived, developed and deployed single-handedly. Comfortable across TypeScript, Python, Rust and several backend languages, Eric blends systems and data work—Kafka, Cassandra and PostgreSQL—with infrastructure skills in Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability. He is an active open-source contributor, notably improving Cassandra support in the popular VSCode SQLTools extension and fixing/ documenting parts of the Pony language and its tooling. Curious about alternative technologies and language design, he seeks pragmatic solutions that bridge developer ergonomics and production reliability.
11 years of coding experience
University of São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Spanish, toki pona
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Github Skills (30)
programming-language10
cassandra10
cassandra-cql10
databases10
vscode-extension10
cql10
documentation10
database10
actor-model10
database-management9
mocking9
sql9
jestjs9
randomization9
typescripts8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ponylang/ponyc
Sep 2017 - Jan 2020
Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
Role in this project:
Backend & Documentation Developer
Backend & Documentation DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 13 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the Pony programming language project by fixing documentation errors related to integer limits and clarifying `String` method usage. They also improved the code by addressing issues in the `random` package, ensuring proper initialization and functionality. Furthermore, the user added Ponybench to the standard library and updated the project's documentation theme to Material design, demonstrating involvement in both code and documentation aspects.
securehorseponyponycpony-source
mtxr/vscode-sqltools
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Database management for VSCode
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 11 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to enhancing the Cassandra database integration within the VSCode SQLTools extension. Their work involved adding a Cassandra driver, improving the visualization of Cassandra-specific data, and addressing issues related to user-defined functions (UDFs). The contributions also included refactoring the legacy CQL schemas and implementing the option for multiple host connections, thereby improving the extension's compatibility and usability with Cassandra databases.
oracle-databasesqlite3sqlitesqltoolspostgres
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