Vitor Freitas
Staff Software Engineer at Nubank
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolVitor Freitas is a Staff Software Engineer based in Rio de Janeiro with 14+ years of multi-industry experience building and operating high-throughput distributed systems, notably helping design Pix instant payments at Nubank to handle 1000+ TPS. He brings deep JVM expertise (Kotlin, Clojure, Java, Scala) complemented by production work in Python, Go and Node.js, and strong hands-on SRE, cloud cost management and database engineering skills. Vitor has led architecture and scalability efforts across teams, designed large-scale ingestion pipelines at OLX, and routinely balances technical strategy with mentoring and hiring. He thrives on solving technically challenging, real-world problems while optimizing cost-efficient, reliable operations and occasionally steps into database engineering roles when projects demand.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnologo Sistema de Computação, Computer Science, Tecnologo Sistema de Computação, Computer Science at Universidade Federal FluminenseTecnico em Informatica, Tecnologia da Informação, Tecnico em Informatica, Tecnologia da Informação at ISERJJohns Hopkins University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
react4
nodejs4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vitorpfr/hellojava
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 15 pushes in 8 months
vitorpfr/billsplit
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
A website to split a restaurant or bar bill among several people
Contributions:5 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
reactsplitnodejsbillamong
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