Otavio Nascimento
Engineering Lead at Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolOtavio Nascimento is an engineering lead based in Melbourne with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable product features and search systems across Ruby, Java and C/C++. He has led teams at Canva, Zendesk and Air Robe, and as a search engineer at Redbubble delivered measurable relevance and performance gains—boosting engagement and cutting Solr latency substantially. A pragmatic polyglot and avid problem solver, he deliberately explores at least one unfamiliar technology in every project to expand his toolkit. Otavio is an active open-source contributor (see his enhancements to Java VerbalExpressions) and brings a blend of backend optimization, full-stack experience and peer-focused leadership that accelerates team learning and code quality.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Colégio Emilie de VilleneuveBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade de São Paulo / USP
English, French, Portuguese
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Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
regular-expression10
javas10
java10
software-design9
documentation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
VerbalExpressions/JavaVerbalExpressions
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Java regular expressions made easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Otavio contributed new features to the Java regular expressions library, specifically implementing the `oneOf` method for matching alternative expressions, which adds flexibility in regex creation. They also renamed the `anythingBut` method. Furthermore, the user refactored to allow use of a builder as a parameter to the `maybe` method and added documentation (javadoc) for added clarity and maintainability. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing the core functionality and usability of the Java library.
twineregular-expressionsregularrefactoringabstract-syntax-tree
Tavio/fixture-factory-js
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 17 pushes in 2 months
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