Victor Mota
Co-Founder at CoPlane
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Mota is a software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building data-first systems at the intersection of cloud, analytics, and finance. He led the Accounting Report Platform at Stripe and contributed to BigQuery integrations and storage tooling at Google and Kaggle, bringing deep domain knowledge in data import, partitioning, and serialization. Victor is a hands-on backend and DevOps engineer who has fixed core bugs and added features to high-profile open-source projects like Apache Avro and improved BigQuery support in widely used Docker images. Now co-founding CoPlane to build a trusted data plane for trade, he combines product-level leadership with low-level systems expertise—a rare mix that spans C++ serialization internals to production data pipelines. Colleagues describe him as high-agency and pragmatic, with a track record of turning complex data problems into reliable, test-covered solutions.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Harbord Collegiate InstituteCardinal Carter Catholic High SchoolB.Eng Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.Eng Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,229reputation
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30answers
4questions
google-bigquery
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Github Skills (31)
unit-testing10
avro10
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
c-language10
bigquery10
pytest10
python10
testing10
data-serialization10
dockers10
serialization10
gcp10
cprogramming-language10
unit-test10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Kaggle/docker-python
Dec 2018 - Mar 2020
Kaggle Python docker image
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 commits, 55 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily focused on enhancing the BigQuery integration within the Docker-based Python environment. They implemented a monkeypatching mechanism to facilitate secure access to BigQuery, including support for user-connected GCP accounts and a data proxy. Furthermore, the user made significant contributions to the testing infrastructure, by making BigQuery tests more robust with scoped environment variables. They also addressed installation issues.
kagglepythondocker-imagedata-sciencedocker
apache/avro
Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
Apache Avro is a data serialization system.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributed to the C++ codebase of the Apache Avro project. Their work involved fixing bugs in the JSON parser, specifically related to state checking and escaping default values in schema serialization for strings. Additionally, the user added support for default values in schema serialization, enhancing the functionality and accuracy of the library's data handling. The changes touched both the core implementation and unit tests.
avrobigdatadotnetpythonrust
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