Otacilio Maia is a CTO and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable, serverless and cloud-native systems across education and consumer tech. Based in Paraíba, Brazil, he leads technology strategy and a multidisciplinary team at Fundação 1Bi/iFood, where he helped design AprendiZAP — a WhatsApp-first education platform serving over 120,000 students nationwide. He combines hands-on backend expertise (AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, microservices) with product and security acumen from an MBA in Information Security and an MS in Software Engineering. A teacher and open-source contributor, he mentors engineers as a Platzi instructor and has implemented playful educational algorithms in C, Java and Scala on GitHub. Known for bridging technical delivery with social impact, he brings practical pragmatism to scaling infrastructure and democratizing digital learning.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Engenharia de Controle e Automação., Mecatrônica, Robótica e Engenharia de Controle e Automação, Engenharia de Controle e Automação., Mecatrônica, Robótica e Engenharia de Controle e Automação at Universidade de Pernambuco
Master of Business Administration - MBA, information security, Master of Business Administration - MBA, information security at Uniamérica
Tecnico em eletrônica, Eletrônica., Tecnico em eletrônica, Eletrônica. at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at CESAR School
A repository with a bunch of funny algorithms, beginners friendly
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Back-end Developer
Contributions:48 reviews, 445 commits, 786 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Otacilio primarily contributed to the repository by implementing various sorting algorithms in C and Scala, including bogoSort, infinitySort, and heapSort. They also added implementations for several algorithms, such as the Eratosthenes sieve and the Extended Euclidean algorithm, in Java and Scala. Furthermore, the user incorporated code for other algorithms like factorial calculation and tree traversal.
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Contributions:317 reviews, 400 commits, 663 PRs in 4 years 2 months
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