Renan Prata
Principal Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRenan Prata is a Principal Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 14 years of experience building Linux-based embedded systems, IoT devices, and scalable cloud services across consumer electronics, payments, surveillance, and industrial automation. He combines a Master’s in Computer Graphics with hands-on expertise in C/C++, Go, Rust and Python to deliver end-to-end solutions from custom hardware to microservice architectures on AWS and Google Cloud. Renan has led teams as a tech lead, driven architecture decisions, and shipped first-of-its-kind products for early-stage companies while mentoring engineers and running thoughtful code reviews. His work spans computer vision and AI/LLM applications—turning sensor and video data into predictive maintenance and automation insights—and he also contributes bug fixes and practical features to notable open-source projects like aiortc. Comfortable operating at the intersection of research and product, he’s known for integrating embedded constraints with cloud-scale design to solve real-world problems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Graphics, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Graphics at Federal University of Rio de JaneiroBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at UERJStudent High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Student High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Colégio Pedro IIElectrical Engineering Technician, Electrical Engineering Technician at Cefet/RJ - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca
English, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
49reputation
5kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (14)
media-playback10
webrtc10
ffmpeg10
regex10
python10
asyncio10
testing9
bootloader6
prometheus6
assembly6
makefile6
osdev6
x866
qemu6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aiortc/aiortc
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
WebRTC and ORTC implementation for Python using asyncio
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Renan primarily contributed to the `aiortc` project by fixing bugs related to URL parsing and media player functionality. They modified the regular expressions used for parsing STUN URLs, and implemented a feature to allow media playback without decoding, including the necessary changes for video offset and error handling. Additionally, the user improved the example janus application by adding an option to play media files without decoding, and added a timeout option for media player operations.
webrtc-librariespythonasynciowebrtcaio
rprata/ffmean-shift
Apr 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.