Vinicius Mignot
Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Top SchoolVinicius Mignot is a seasoned software engineer with eight years of focused experience in back-end systems and API gateway development, currently contributing to Kong where he improves request-transformer and proxy-cache plugins for a widely used cloud-native API gateway. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he blends deep systems-level knowledge—from embedded ARM RFID access control he built as a founder to large-scale HTTP lifecycle work—with hands-on bug fixes and feature upgrades in prominent open-source projects. His background spans startups and enterprise teams, plus roles in project management and agile coaching where he trained hundreds in Scrum, TDD, and CI practices. Comfortable across C/C++, networking stacks, and modern cloud-native tooling, he’s known on GitHub as "老兄 – Zen coder," reflecting a pragmatic, steady approach to complex integration problems. Notably, his contributions reveal an emphasis on robust header handling and cache behavior, showing attention to subtle runtime interactions that often make or break API performance.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at UnisinosBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Universidade La SalleTecnologias Aplicadas a Sistemas de Informação com Métodos Ágeis, Tecnologias Aplicadas a Sistemas de Informação com Métodos Ágeis at Centro Universitário Ritter dos ReisTécnico em Eletrônica, Técnico em Eletrônica at Fundação Liberato Salzano
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Github Skills (4)
lua10
api-gateway10
http-header10
openresty9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 388 reviews, 192 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Vinicius primarily contributed to the Kong API gateway by addressing bug fixes and implementing new features within existing plugins. Their work focused on improving the request-transformer and proxy-cache plugins. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of API gateway functionality and its interaction with HTTP headers and request/response lifecycle management. They also worked on upgrading existing features to newer version of the existing libraries.
api-gatewaynginxkong-pluginserverlessload-balancing
Kong/lua-resty-healthcheck
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Healthcheck library for OpenResty to validate upstream service status
Contributions:31 reviews, 64 commits, 86 PRs in 3 years 5 months
healthcheckluakong-pluginservice-statusstatus
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