João Vortmann
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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SeniorJoão Vortmann is a Staff Software Engineer based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with 16 years of experience building and evolving large-scale platforms, especially in video ingest/encoding and cloud-native pipelines. He blends hands-on engineering (Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, Docker/Kubernetes) with architectural leadership—extracting services from monoliths, improving delivery velocity, and optimizing encoding quality via experiments like VMAF. João has led teams at Globo.com and Doximity, driven hiring and mentoring, and helped make encoding pipelines elastic to improve hardware utilization. His background in H.264 research and FPGA work underscores a rare depth in video compression theory and implementation that informs practical production improvements.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (84)
build-automation10
continuous-integration10
apache-kafka10
docker10
librdkafka10
continuous-delivery9
api9
shell9
python9
rails-engines9
ruby9
bash9
handheld9
rails-admin9
basher9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jvortmann/dots
Sep 2010 - Jan 2023
Let's get our home organized
Contributions:883 commits, 7 PRs, 458 pushes in 12 years 6 months
pythonletdockerorganized
jvortmann/vim-files
Sep 2010 - Jan 2023
Vim can rock even more
Contributions:811 commits, 2 PRs, 154 pushes in 12 years 6 months
vim
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