Vito Paine
Principal Engineer at Carvana
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolVito Paine is a Principal Engineer based in Phoenix with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, highly available systems and delivery pipelines for high-traffic sites. He blends deep backend expertise (Java, Scala, C++) with automation and infrastructure skills (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, AWS) to drive reliability, fault tolerance, and measurable performance improvements. A long-time mentor and technical lead, he has repeatedly led company-wide initiatives—precommit testing, sustained load testing, and architecture/migration strategies—that raised engineering confidence and reduced incident risk. Vito’s background spans startups to large enterprises, from architecting photobook rendering and multi-threaded C++ servers to steering special projects and principal-level work at Carvana. He pairs pragmatic coding with strong observability and automation instincts, often surfacing operational gaps into repeatable engineering practices. Outside typical role descriptions, he has a track record of designing internal tooling and test clusters that materially lowered the cost of running production-scale validation.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Certified ScrumMaster, Certified ScrumMaster at Agile AllianceSun Certified Java Programmer, Sun Certified Java Programmer at Sun MicrosystemsThe University of Arizona
English, scala / akka, java, bash, aws
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Github Skills (7)
jenkins-plugin7
gatling7
jenkins6
sumologic4
ansible-role4
ansible3
collector3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vitopn/randito
Jan 2016 - Feb 2019
An annotations to inject random values into class properties
Contributions:76 PRs, 43 pushes, 77 branches in 3 years
propertiesclass-propertiesannotationsinject
vitopn/ansible-sumocollector
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:33 PRs, 27 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 11 months
sumologicansibleansible-rolesumologic-collectorrole
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