Vinícius Vargas
Senior Software Engineer at Grupo QuintoAndar
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolVinícius Vargas is a Senior Software Engineer based in São Paulo with five years of professional experience building reliable, cost-efficient backend and platform solutions. Trained as a theoretical physicist (MSc) and PhD candidate in condensed matter, he brings mathematical rigor to system design and performance optimization, notably reducing CPU throttling and halving CI-to-deploy times in production cores. He has driven platform-wide IaC and cost-saving initiatives—automating GitHub management, consolidating repos, and detecting idle RDS instances—delivering tangible savings and security improvements. As a full-stack systems builder he has shipped high-throughput integrations and event-driven services using Python, Rust, Kafka, and cloud-native tooling, while mentoring teams to raise engineering standards. Comfortable at the intersection of research and product engineering, he translates formal modeling skills into practical, observable, and maintainable software. Colleagues describe him as methodical and curious—“taking baby steps” while steadily producing high-impact infrastructure and data-driven features.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado em Física Física da Matéria Condensada e dos Materiais, Mestrado em Física Física da Matéria Condensada e dos Materiais at Universidade Federal de ViçosaDoutorado em Física Física da Matéria Condensada e dos Materiais, Doutorado em Física Física da Matéria Condensada e dos Materiais at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (85)
testing10
gcp10
infrastructure10
dx10
serverless10
microservices10
dotnet10
pulumi10
mocks10
test-automation10
java10
mocking10
csharp10
mockito10
unit-testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
santunioni/realworld-app
Apr 2022 - Apr 2023
Starter kit for new RealWorld framework implementations
Contributions:22 PRs, 328 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year
implementationsrealworld
santunioni/ThrottledAPI
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
A throttler for python FastAPI
Contributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 104 pushes in 8 months
throttlerpythonasynciopython-fastapifastapi
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