Victor Pacheco
Data Visualization And Data Storytelling Specialist - SNIIC
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Pacheco is a software engineer and data storyteller with a decade of experience building full-stack JavaScript applications and data-driven interfaces, currently specializing in data visualization and storytelling at Brazil’s SNIIC. He blends frontend expertise in React and TypeScript with backend and ML-oriented engineering—designing serverless APIs, vector search RAG integrations, and automated scraping pipelines that process official publications across multiple Brazilian states. Victor has led scalable front-end architecture for civic and media projects (Wikimedia Brasil, Nexo Jornal) and built production analytics dashboards and PDF processing tools that surface structured facts for journalists. His background in journalism and an MSc in Communications gives him a rare ability to translate complex datasets into clear narratives and actionable features. He also brings hands-on automation experience (GitHub Actions, Supabase, Deno/Edge Functions) and pragmatic tooling for entity enrichment using Wikidata. Based in Belo Horizonte, he combines newsroom sensibilities with engineering rigor to deliver trustworthy, source-cited data products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Technician in Industrial Mechanics., Technician in Industrial Mechanics. at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas GeraisMaster of Science - MS, Communications and Media Studies, Master of Science - MS, Communications and Media Studies at Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisInterchange Student in Multimedia Marketing Bachelor, Software e Aplicativos de Mídia, Interchange Student in Multimedia Marketing Bachelor, Software e Aplicativos de Mídia at Hochschule Schmalkalden
Portuguese, English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
scrape8
projeto8
twitter-api8
npm-cli8
nodejs7
javascript7
npm7
twitter7
scraper7
rio6
package-manager5
python5
r-package5
google-news4
youtube4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wikimediabrasil/capx-frontend
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:55 reviews, 70 PRs, 235 pushes in 5 months
victorgois/video-news-robot
May 2019 - Feb 2024
Experimento audiovisual de noticiário online automatizado através das plataformas Google News, Twitter e YouTube
Contributions:35 pushes, 11 branches, 4 comments in 4 years 10 months
experimentoyoutubeaudiovisualriogoogle-news
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