Vinicius Marques is a software engineer and consultant with 11 years of experience helping e-commerce and fintech businesses translate product goals into reliable, production-ready systems. Based in Berlin, he blends hands-on API and full‑stack development (TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, Postgres) with architecture, vendor integration (Commercetools, Algolia, Contentful) and deployment expertise across cloud platforms. At foobar he pairs client-facing delivery—improving discovery, checkout and retention—with internal coaching, team leveling and technical decision support. His background spans industrial asset management, OCR-driven document processing and research on routing protocols for constrained devices, reflecting a comfort with both low-level systems and user-facing features. He contributes to open-source projects (e.g., evolving a Python "Minecraft" fork toward a real engine), and is actively exploring Rust and applied AI to bring new tooling and performance gains to products. Colleagues describe him as adaptable, communication-focused, and oriented to using technology to solve real business problems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago
Mestrado, Computação Aplicada, Mestrado, Computação Aplicada at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
A fork of "Minecraft in 500 lines of python" intended to someday be used as a real engine, instead of as a learning example.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Vinicius primarily focused on developing features for the "pycraft" repository, a project aiming to recreate Minecraft in Python. Their contributions included adding a configuration loader to handle window settings and other game parameters, enhancing the window module, and integrating the configuration file into the main application. They also introduced game state management, laying the groundwork for a more complex game structure and implemented the first running game state.
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Vinicius Marques - Software Engineer And Consultant at foobar Agency