Renato Farias
Lead Software Engineer (VP) at JPMorganChase
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRenato Farias is a Lead Software Engineer and platform specialist with 15+ years building scalable, self-service infrastructure across public, private and hybrid clouds. He combines hands-on automation (Python, shell, IaC) with systems design, monitoring and performance tuning to deliver resilient platforms that accelerate cross-functional teams. At the BBC he led ML enablement and a migration from GCP to AWS using AWS CDK, and now serves as VP-level engineering lead at JPMorganChase driving platform reliability at scale. Renato’s open-source contributions to the popular locust load-testing project show a pragmatic focus on HTTP client flexibility, SSL support and test coverage—evidence of his attention to reliability under load. He consistently pairs security and compliance (hardened PII environments) with developer self-service, reducing friction while maintaining governance. Based in Glasgow, he’s a collaborative technical leader who mentors teams and prefers solving hard operational problems with elegant, automated solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduated, Information Technology Management, Undergraduated, Information Technology Management at Universidade Nove de Julho
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
loadtest10
testing10
load-testing10
python10
performance-testing10
locust9
gevent9
http8
benchmarking7
benchmark7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
locustio/locust
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Renato primarily contributed to the `locustio/locust` project by adding and modifying features related to the FastHttpUser class, a core component for load testing. Their work included adding support for custom SSL contexts, enhancing the flexibility of the HTTP client. Further contributions included bug fixes, formatting improvements, and writing tests for the newly added features, demonstrating a focus on code quality and reliability. The changes highlight the user's involvement in improving the HTTP client functionality and testing within the load-testing framework.
scalablestress-testingbenchmarkingpythonload-testing
renato-farias/nu-tripaliare-api
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:115 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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