Vinicius Freitas
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Tucson, AZ, United States
Toptal member since March 1, 2013
Vinicius is a seasoned software developer with a background in Go, Node.js, JavaScript, and Drupal. He has co-founded three companies in his career, from Silicon Valley to Latin America, successfully leading innovative teams of up to 15 developers and working as an individual contributor.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 12 years
- Go - 8 years
- Node.js - 8 years
- Drupal - 7 years
- React - 5 years
- Agile Software Development - 5 years
- PHP - 5 years
- Python - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
OS X, VMware
The most amazing...
...project I’ve worked on is FunnelGuard, a distributed digital journey monitoring and analysis service built with Go, Drupal, and React.
Work Experience
Co-founder and CTO
4on
- Developed a payment gateway allowing merchants to receive payment across six countries with 40+ payment methods in seven different currencies.
- Supported the onboarding and integration of 16 different customers.
- Oversaw all technology acquisitions and onboarding across the company (website, CRM, email marketing, etc.).
Co-founder and CTO
Funnelguard
- Developed a multi-tenant SaaS that ingests data from Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and LinkedAds to run anomaly detection on thousands of performance marketing KPIs to identify performance problems and opportunities.
- Built a multi-tenant application that ingests data from Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and LinkedAds to identify marketing landing pages, map customer journeys, and run website performance monitoring to identify conversion-killing problems.
- Integrated Auth0 for user management and authentication.
Web Engineering Manager
Anki
- Led web engineering through three new product line launches: Cozmo, Vector, and Overdrive Fast & Furious.
- Scaled global websites from 3 million page views per year to over 22 million per year over three years.
- Implemented Salesforce Commerce Cloud globally, with an initial launch in five months.
- Implemented Salesforce Marketing Cloud for email marketing automation globally in two months.
- Architected websites, APIs, and integrations. Managed web development, maintenance, and operations of Anki's direct-to-customer channels, such as eCommerce at Anki.com, as well as email marketing and developer content marketing at Developer.anki.com.
- Managed an ecosystem of internal developers, contractors, and vendors, which power and integrate into the software landscape of direct-to-customer channels.
- Directed and advised on technology selection and acquisition.
COO and Developer
Taller Web Solutions
- Developed a social network with Drupal 7, NGINX, Redis, MongoDB, and MySQL.
- Served as a project manager and scrum master for several development initiatives.
- Handled marketing and operations for a development firm.
Experience
Mymag
Emoovi (Under development)
Bizsnack (Under development)
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering
Unisul - Florinaopolis, Brazil
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, jQuery, React, Vue
Tools
Google Analytics, VMware, Solr, Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC), Splunk, Auth0
Languages
JavaScript, Go, HTML, CSS3, HTML5, CSS, PHP, TypeScript, Java, Python, GraphQL
Paradigms
Event-driven Programming, Agile Software Development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Functional Programming, Microservices, REST
Platforms
Drupal, Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Linux, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), OS X, LEMP, Magento, New Relic, Kubernetes, WordPress
Frameworks
Symfony 2, Redux, Express.js, Django
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Dgraph
Other
Software, Full-stack, Front-end, Content Management Systems (CMS), Networking, APIs, Timescale, Pulumi, Apollo
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