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.
8 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 (28)
oop10
poly10
cyclic10
visitors9
polymorphism9
pattern9
visitor-pattern9
traits9
constexpr8
union7
pattern-matching7
discriminated-unions7
observable7
metaprogramming7
boost7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ricardocosme/poly_visitor
Jun 2017 - Nov 2021
Poly Visitor is a C++11 generic component to use the visitor pattern at runtime polymorphic solutions. It's a safe, efficient and concise solution to implement cyclic visitors in the Object Oriented(OO) paradigm.
Contributions:1 review, 57 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 5 months
runtimec-plus-pluscyclicvisitor-patternparadigm
ricardocosme/freijo
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Yet another OpenGL C++ wrapper library
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cppc-wrapperwrapper-libraryopenglyet-another
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