Vicente Marçal is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience designing scalable, secure Python backends and leading teams through architecture, CI/CD and observability at cloud scale. He specializes in FastAPI, asynchronous programming and PostgreSQL optimization, and has built and mentored teams to deliver microservices on Docker, Kubernetes and AWS. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the popular flask-googlemaps project with new layers, styles and tests—demonstrating full-stack fluency from API design to frontend templates. Formerly an adjunct philosophy professor with a doctorate in social psychology, he brings a rare blend of rigorous academic thinking and poetic attention to code, favoring meaning and quality over mere velocity. Colleagues know him as a practical mentor who pairs deep technical standards with continuous learning and tangible product value.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado em Filosofia, Filosfia, Mestrado em Filosofia, Filosfia at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
Pós-graduação Lato Sensu - Especialização, Arquitetura de Software, Pós-graduação Lato Sensu - Especialização, Arquitetura de Software at Universidade Pitágoras Unopar Anhanguera
Doctor's Degree, Psicologia Social, Doctor's Degree, Psicologia Social at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Licenciatura, Filosofia, Licenciatura, Filosofia at UEL - Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Easy way to add GoogleMaps to Flask applications. maintainer: @getcake
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5 releases, 4 reviews, 27 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Vicente made several updates and enhancements to the `flask-googlemaps` project. Their contributions included fixing code, updating dependencies, merging branches, and adding new features like bicycle and KML layers to the maps. They also modified templates, and test files, and implemented various map styling options, showcasing a range of skills from backend logic to frontend integration. The work involved modifying core files and example code to improve functionality and user experience.
CertGen - Django Project to build an App that Generates and Manage an Issue of Certificates
Contributions:92 PRs, 162 pushes, 184 branches in 6 months
djangodjango-projectpythoncertificates
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Vicente Marçal - Engenheiro De Software Sênior at Grupo Storm