Jhonatan Da Ponte Lopes
Forward Deployed Engineer at Thoughtful AI
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolJhonatan Da Ponte Lopes is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building high-performance Python/Django backends and automation pipelines, currently based in Brasília. He specializes in cutting latency and improving throughput—most notably shrinking complex appointment workflows from ~12 minutes to under 30 seconds—while remaining hands-on in architecture and implementation. Comfortable leading small teams, he blends enterprise-grade authorization, subscription management, and caching strategies with pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, observable systems. His background as a mechanical engineer and PhD-trained researcher gives him a strong applied-mathematics lens for designing deterministic automation across heterogeneous stacks (browser, desktop, and API integrations). An active open-source contributor, he has improved cross-platform terminal tooling in the popular alive-progress project, fixing encoding/stdout issues and enhancing packaging and usability. He brings a mix of research rigor and production engineering discipline to solve performance, security, and operational complexity at scale.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Engineering Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Engineering Science at University of OxfordRice UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Mechanical Engineering, 5.0/5.0, Master of Science (MSc), Mechanical Engineering, 5.0/5.0 at Universidade de Brasília
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (8)
terminal-emulator10
progress-bar10
terminal-application10
python10
cli10
testing9
packaging8
animated7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rsalmei/alive-progress
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, ETA, and very cool animations!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jhonatan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `alive-progress` library. They fixed bugs related to encoding and stdout handling and added features. The user also made changes to the terminal output and setup configuration, ensuring the project's proper packaging and environment setup. Their efforts improved compatibility, corrected errors, and improved the overall usability of the library.
pythonetaprogress-barprogressbarpython2
jhonatan-lopes/wagtail
Jan 2023 - Mar 2024
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Contributions:24 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangodjango-blog
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