Vinicius Fortuna
Founder, Director And Chief Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVinicius Fortuna is a seasoned software leader and founder with 12+ years building large-scale systems that protect and expand access to the open Internet. As a long-time engineer and manager at Google’s Jigsaw, he helped create high-impact projects like Knowledge Cards for Search, the Outline VPN, and the Censored Planet censorship dashboard, blending product-grade engineering with security and measurement. He spans full-stack development, cryptographic server hardening, and infrastructure automation—evidenced by contributions to uProxy, Outline’s Shadowsocks server, and Electron-based clients. Now leading the Outline Foundation, he combines technical depth with product strategy to make censorship circumvention more robust and usable. Notably, his early work includes pioneering location-based multiplayer systems in Brazil, showing a longstanding appetite for inventive, real-world tech.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (33)
socks10
javascript10
security-hardening10
npm10
electron10
shadow10
typescript10
go10
cryptography10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
dockers9
docker9
build-automation9
browserify9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Jigsaw-Code/outline-ss-server
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Outline Shadowsocks server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:8 releases, 281 reviews, 197 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vinicius primarily focused on refactoring and improving the security and functionality of the Outline Shadowsocks server. They made significant changes to the cipher handling, including updating the key derivation and implementing a replay defense mechanism. Further improvements were added through new metrics to monitor the performance and reliability of the server and also to log and analyze for better insights.
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Jigsaw-Code/outline-apps
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Outline Client and Manager, developed by Jigsaw. Outline Manager makes it easy to create your own VPN server. Outline Client lets you share access to your VPN with anyone in your network, giving them access to the free and open internet.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1466 reviews, 141 commits, 179 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vinicius's contributions focused on enhancing the Outline VPN client, primarily within the Electron application. They implemented UI improvements, including icon changes and adjustments to window behavior. Furthermore, the user cleaned up and refactored the Electron application's core functionalities. This also involved improving the application's underlying architecture by migrating the codebase and implementing new features.
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