Ricardo Cosme
Senior Software Engineer at Optify
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolRicardo Cosme is a Senior Software Engineer based in Rio de Janeiro with 15+ years of professional experience and deep expertise in modern C++ and API/library design focused on zero-overhead abstractions. He has led teams and shaped engineering practices at Tecgraf/PUC-Rio, raising C++ quality through pair programming, training, and reusable generic components used in scientific visualization and middleware projects. His background spans distributed systems, HFT technologies, REST/CORBA backends, OpenGL desktop apps, SQL databases, parsers and embedded AVR work, demonstrating rare breadth from low-level performance to web services. A practical open-source author, he maintains multiple C++ libraries and tools on GitHub that reflect his emphasis on concise, high-performance solutions. He also co-founded a fintech exchange built from the ground up in C++20, showing an ability to ship end-to-end systems under regulatory and operational constraints.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (23)
oop10
visitor-pattern10
polymorphism9
traits9
cpp8
constexpr8
discriminated-unions8
union8
pattern-matching7
file-handling6
boost6
windows6
variadic-templates6
serialization6
constructor6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ricardocosme/freijo
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Yet another OpenGL C++ wrapper library
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cppopengl
ricardocosme/coruja
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
C++ observable containers and ranges
Contributions:91 commits, 8 PRs, 198 pushes in 2 years
cpp
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