Vynicius Pontes
Staff Software Engineer at Freestar
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolVynicius Pontes is a Staff Software Engineer based in São Paulo with nine years of experience designing high-performance, cloud-native backend systems across fintech, ad tech, and e-commerce. He specializes in the Java/Kotlin ecosystem and has repeatedly driven architectures that cut latency and cost—most notably architecting high-throughput event pipelines handling hundreds of millions of daily events and consolidating legacy ad services into a modular monolith with 80% test coverage. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, he mentors non-backend engineers through complex Spring/Java integrations and defines engineering standards around observability and deployment orchestration. His work blends domain-driven design, event-driven patterns, and pragmatic cloud orchestration to scale systems to millions of transactions with sub-second SLAs. An early background in game programming and educational platforms gives him a practical, user-focused perspective that complements his systems-level expertise.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Game Programming Technician , Computer Games and Programming Skills, Game Programming Technician , Computer Games and Programming Skills at NAVE/CEJLL - Núcleo Avançado em EducaçãoBachelor of Science in Information Systems, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Information Systems, Computer Science at Universidade Federal Fluminense
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Github Skills (9)
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scientific-workflow8
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infrastructure7
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vyniciuspontes/Chess
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:20 PRs, 48 pushes, 16 branches in 2 months
javaawtjava-swingswing
vyniciuspontes/sw-game-api
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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