Wilson Freitas
Software Engineer at NVIDIA
São Paulo, São Paulo, United States
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Top SchoolWilson Freitas is a seasoned software engineer with 13+ years building enterprise-grade systems across Java, Ruby, Groovy and C/C++ stacks, currently designing mission-critical tools at NVIDIA. He brings deep integration and architecture experience—ESBs (Apache Camel, JBoss), J2EE patterns, Hibernate/JPA and REST/SOAP integrations—alongside hands-on work with search, databases and CI tools. Previously he led Java/J2EE architecture at Vetta, delivering high-availability advertising, telecom billing and MES solutions and driving rapid-application frameworks and CMMI-focused practices. An active open-source contributor, he implemented a robust Pelican rmd_reader that integrates R Markdown via knitr and curates quantitative finance resources in an "awesome-quant" repository. Comfortable across backend, full-stack and tooling domains, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a quantitative bent—he codes, automates and even bakes, reflecting a methodical, experimental approach to problem solving. Based in São Paulo with a Computer Science degree from Universidade Federal da Bahia, he excels at turning complex integration challenges into reliable production services.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Universidade Federal da BahiaHigh School, High School at Colégio Técnico da Fundação José Carvalho
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (23)
markdown10
python10
r10
plugin-development10
pandas10
knitr10
pelican10
markdown-it10
github-api10
data-scraping10
website-development9
file-handling9
finance8
testing8
html6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wilsonfreitas/awesome-quant
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
A curated list of insanely awesome libraries, packages and resources for Quants (Quantitative Finance)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 210 commits, 130 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Wilson's commits demonstrate full-stack development activities, with the initial commits focused on automating tasks and integrating the GitHub API for topic and repository searches. The user then adds a script for generating project tables, which involves parsing README.md files and retrieving commit dates from GitHub. The user also implements scraping functionality to find GitHub links in CRAN projects and updates the website's structure.
algorithmic-trading-enginequantsquantfinancearbitrage-bot
getpelican/pelican-plugins
Jun 2014 - Sep 2016
Collection of plugins for the Pelican static site generator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 11 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Wilson primarily developed and enhanced a Pelican plugin to integrate with R Markdown files. They implemented the `rmd_reader` plugin, which converts Rmd files to Markdown using the `knitr` R package. The user refactored the plugin to use `MarkdownReader` and added configuration options for `knitr`. They also added functionality to rename plot files and set R initialization options to improve reliability and avoid initialization problems.
static-site-generator
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