José Vanz
Senior Software Engineer at SUSE
Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Top SchoolJosé Vanz is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining cloud-native and data-driven systems from Brazil's Santa Catarina. At SUSE he contributes upstream to the Kubewarden CNCF sandbox, maintains Kubernetes operators, and mentors contributors while previously supporting and debugging full-stack container platforms at the L3 level. He brings deep backend and data engineering skills—Scrapy spiders, DOC→PDF pipelines, and multi-format ingestion for Brazil’s Querido Diário project—and has contributed to core container tooling like Podman to improve CLI and registry behaviors. Comfortable in C/C++, Python, Node.js and Spark ecosystems, José blends production troubleshooting with long-term engineering, and has a habit of turning operational pain points into automation and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Regional de BlumenauC++ Nanodregree, C++ Nanodregree at Udacity
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
container10
docker10
python10
dockers10
occi10
scrapy10
pdf-processing10
go10
data-scraping10
convert9
command-line-interface9
file-format9
file-conversion9
webscraping9
command-line9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
okfn-brasil/querido-diario
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
📰 Diários oficiais brasileiros acessíveis a todos | 📰 Brazilian government gazettes, accessible to everyone.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:187 reviews, 332 commits, 98 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:José focused on enhancing the project's data collection capabilities. They implemented spiders using Scrapy to scrape data from various Brazilian government gazettes. These spiders were designed to extract specific information. The user also worked on integrating a DOC to PDF pipeline, enabling the conversion of DOC files to PDF. Furthermore, the user added support for new file types such as TXT and ODT.
pythoncivic-techdata-sciencegazette-crawlerspider
podman-container-tools/podman
Aug 2018 - Jul 2021
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 4 PRs, 27 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:José's primary contributions focused on enhancing the `podman` tool, particularly around the "info" command. They implemented features to display mirror information, registry data, and search tables within the command's output. Furthermore, the user added a new command-line argument, `--infra-name`, for defining the infra container's name, and added an `--authfile` argument to the image sign command. Their work involved modifications to the `libpod`, `cmd`, and `pkg` directories, indicating a focus on internal logic and command-line interface enhancements.
oci-containerpodmancontainersdockerkubernetes
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