Lucas Simon
Python Engineer Senior at Vortigo Digital
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Simon is a senior Python engineer with 14 years of experience designing resilient, scalable backend systems—particularly for fintech and high-traffic marketplaces. He specializes in Hexagonal Architecture, microservices, and asynchronous patterns, and has driven major performance improvements by migrating synchronous APIs to async models and implementing caching, message queues (RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS), and Redis. Comfortable across Django, Flask, and FastAPI, Lucas combines strong database experience (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB) with hands-on AWS/GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes operations to deliver high-availability services. His fintech work includes leading card-module APIs with >80% test coverage and native AWS microservices orchestration. He also modernized marketing automation using AWS Step Functions and improved partner integrations for cashback and loyalty platforms, showing an ability to connect business needs to robust technical solutions. An active documentation contributor early in his career, he improved developer experience for an open-source Django utility, reflecting attention to clarity as well as code.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Sistemas de Informação, Tecnologia, Desenvolvimento, Analise de Sistemas, Sistemas de Informação, Tecnologia, Desenvolvimento, Analise de Sistemas at PUC-MG
Github Skills (5)
rs10
restructuredtext10
sphinx10
documentation10
python4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
berinhard/model_mommy
Apr 2014 - May 2014
No longer maintained, please migrate to model_bakery
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to the documentation of the `model_mommy` project. Their work focused on creating and improving documentation chapters, including basic usage, recipes, deprecation warnings, extensions, and known issues. The user's contributions directly enhanced the project's documentation, making it easier for users to understand and utilize the library.
bakerymigrate
lucassimon/fc-catalogo-de-videos
Dec 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 48 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
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