Vitor Souza
Tech Lead at PicPay
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolVitor Souza is a seasoned Tech Lead based in Rio de Janeiro with over a decade of professional experience and two decades immersed in technology since the 2000s. He specializes in backend systems using PHP/Laravel, microservices, messaging (SQS/Kafka), and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS), currently leading platform initiatives at PicPay. Comfortable across databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis, he brings strong observability and production-first practices with Grafana, New Relic and Dynatrace. An active open-source contributor, he has improved type safety and maintainability in projects such as Livewire PowerGrid, reflecting a pragmatic focus on code quality. Colleagues describe him as adaptable and hands-on, equally at ease refactoring libraries or architecting distributed systems, while his continuous personal learning spans React Native, Svelte and RoR. Outside work he balances a busy family life as a husband and father of three, which informs his collaborative and steady leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
Github Skills (8)
php10
laravel10
database-design10
laravel-mix10
datatable9
refactoring9
datatables9
testing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Power-Components/livewire-powergrid
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
⚡ PowerGrid generates modern, powerful and easy-to-customize data tables using Laravel Livewire.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 22 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vitor primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the Livewire PowerGrid component. They worked on fixing view paths, refactoring the `CreateCommand` class, and fixing typos, and removing unnecessary imports. The user also implemented refactoring and typing parameters, variables, and returns for the export service, and filter interfaces. These changes indicate a focus on improving code quality, maintainability, and type safety within the project.
tailwindcsstailwindjetstreamlivewire-powergridlivewire-packages
vs0uz4/ambientum
Oct 2017 - Nov 2024
Docker native solution for running Laravel projects. From Development to Production
Contributions:3 PRs, 21 pushes, 11 branches in 7 years 1 month
octanephpdockerdocker-composelaravel
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