Paulo Zanco
Software Engineer at Alianza, Inc.
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolPaulo Zanco is a seasoned software engineer based in São Paulo with over three decades in technology and 13 years in senior roles delivering telephony, VoIP and enterprise integration solutions. He has led architecture and development efforts at major financial and telecom firms—designing middleware, ESBs and call management systems—and currently engineers VoIP systems at Alianza. Comfortable across the full stack, Paulo contributes to prominent open-source projects like WeeChat, Mopidy and kitty, where his work has improved UI/UX, audio backends and terminal behavior. He combines hands-on coding (Python, Java, C#) with systems thinking, CI practices and mentoring, having driven performance and migration projects at global banks. Notably, his open-source fixes span subtle UX details (multi-line input, newline handling) to backend API integrations (Spotify, Mopidy), reflecting attention to both user-facing polish and robust service logic. His background in academic MIS and long history from mainframe to cloud gives him rare breadth in legacy-to-modern system evolution.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Technologist, Data Processing, Technologist, Data Processing at Centro Regional Universitário de Espirito Santo do PinhalMaster's degree (StrictusSensu), Management Information System, Master's degree (StrictusSensu), Management Information System at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
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Github Skills (45)
mopidy10
userscripts10
back-end-development10
python10
clientside10
gstreamer10
scripting10
testing10
terminal-emulator10
audio-processing10
c1110
terminal-application10
spotify-api10
java10
c1710
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
wee-slack/wee-slack
Oct 2015 - Jan 2023
A WeeChat script for Slack.com. Supports threads and reactions, synchronizes read markers, provides typing notification, etc..
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 29 reviews, 699 commits in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Paulo's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the WeeChat script for Slack. They implemented new features like support for reactions and modifications to the display of messages. Additionally, they made code improvements, such as replacing external dependencies with built-in Weechat functionalities and addressing unicode encoding errors. These changes reflect a commitment to improving the script's features and improving user experience.
weechatmarkersthreadsslacknotification
mopidy/mopidy-spotify
Jun 2014 - Jun 2019
Mopidy extension for playing music from Spotify
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily contributed to the Mopidy-Spotify backend, focusing on integrating Spotify's APIs and enhancing the core functionalities. Their work included implementing playlist and album URI parsing, enabling browsing capabilities for playlists and albums, and addressing playback resumption issues. Furthermore, they refactored the search functionality to leverage Spotify's Web API and optimized search results, demonstrating a good understanding of API integration and backend logic. They also updated tests to reflect the changes.
pythonmopidyspotifymopidy-backendmusic
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