Senior Software Engineer
2015 - 2018SparkMeter- Designed and implemented an asynchronous replication system using PostgreSQL/SymmetricDS for low bandwidth, high-latency clients.
- Ported an existing application over from MongoDB to PostgreSQL—archiving a 100x performance improvement in many cases.
- Implemented billing and dynamic tariffs for metering energy used by customers.
- Improved the product quality by adding unit tests for close to 100% code coverage and added integration testing using Nightwatch.js to automate the QA.
- Packaged Python applications using Wheel and Docker for automated deployment and simplified testing used by the QA.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), HTML5, CSS, Angular, Docker, SymmetricDS, AWS, Heroku, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Flask, PythonDevOps Engineer
2014 - 2015Audience- Designed and implemented a continuous integration system using Gerrit and Jenkins.
- Planned, designed, and built a hardware testing lab for running kernel audio drivers tests on DragonBoard using the Android and Robot framework.
- Planned and implemented release scripts for the handling of the internal software releases of the audience source driver for the Android Linux Kernel.
- Migrated Git repositories from Gitolite to Gerrit.
Technologies: Robot Framework, Python, Android NDK, Jenkins, GerritSoftware Engineer
2001 - 2014Async Open Source- Designed and implemented an open-source POS system using Python and GTK+.
- Conducted contracting work for Nokia by implementing a GTK+ XML parser to construct user interfaces components (GtkBuilder).
- Improved Bugzilla by doing contracting work for NASA and Mozilla.
- Maintained the Python GTK+ binding and did major architectural work like separating the lower level parts (GObject, ATK, Pango) from a high-level (GTK, Glade).
- Gave several speeches about the SVN revisioning control system for graduate school classes at the University of São Paulo (USP).
Technologies: PostgreSQL, GTK+, PythonSoftware Engineer
2008 - 2013Litl- Worked on an OS GUI; written in C and JavaScript using SpiderMonkey and GNOME technologies.
- Maintained the GObject Introspection language binding framework for GNOME.
- Designed and implemented a web application for interacting with an application-tracking system (AST).
- Installed and maintained a continuous integration environment based on Gerrit and Jenkins for the projects developed at Litl.
- Wrote a debugger front-end for the GNOME JavaScript binding for SpiderMonkey.
- Wrote server side software for storing OS data in Python using Google App Engine and Django.
Technologies: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Gjs, JavaScript, MongoDB, Flask, PythonSoftware Engineer
2004 - 2004Fluendo- Wrote an open-source streaming video and audio server using, Python, Twisted, GStreamer, and GTK+.
- Maintained the Python GStreamer bindings.
- Improved the GNOME Sound Recorder by using GStreamer in more efficient ways.
- Wrote a Nintendo Sound File (NSF) decoder for the GStreamer framework.
- Tested the video server during KDE and GNOME conferences.
Technologies: GNOME, GTK+, GStreamer, Python