Rodrigo Vilar is a Staff Software Engineer with over 14 years of hands-on experience and more than 20 years of industry involvement building scalable systems, leading architecture and delivery across Latin America, the U.S., and Europe. He blends full-stack expertise (Node.js, React, GraphQL, Docker, AWS) with deep backend architecture and test automation skills, having built an end-to-end Playwright-based testing stack and refactored server-side logic to improve performance. As a founder, academic, and enterprise lead, he has delivered solutions for companies like Motorola, ASUS, Ingeteam and led the creation of a unified engineering platform that supported 300+ agile projects at VIRTUS. Rodrigo thrives on ambiguous problems, translating product strategy into engineering outcomes while mentoring teams, running tech sessions, and improving delivery practices. He pairs rigorous academic background (MSc/PhD work in Computer Science) with practical product focus and an interest in distributed systems, autonomous agents and decentralized identity. Notably, he often leans on system thinking to simplify complexity—making software simpler and teams faster.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
UFCG, Mestrado em Ciência da Computação, UFCG, Mestrado em Ciência da Computação at UFCG
Doutorado, Computer Science, Doutorado, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Contributions:29 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 11 months
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Rodrigo Vilar - Software Engineer at TRU Solutions