Vinícius Campitelli

Professional Summary

Full-stack engineer, IT consultant, and technology educator with 20+ years of experience in software engineering, systems architecture, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and developer relations. Experienced with PHP, Laravel, Python, JavaScript, SQL/NoSQL, AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. Founded an e-learning SaaS startup, led engineering teams, delivered technical training, and spoke at technology conferences.

Professional Experience

2022 - current

IT Consultant @ Yampi

Providing IT consulting on decision-making, software architecture, application security, and engineering best practices; also delivered technical training and workshops for one of Brazil's largest e-commerce companies

2023 - 2024

Developer Advocate @ FusionAuth

Worked in Developer Relations and Developer Advocacy for a CIAM platform. Created technical articles and blog posts, and developed libraries in multiple programming languages to demonstrate real-world SDK and API integrations

2022 - current

IT Consultant @ Other companies

• Operand (operand.com.br): Provided IT consulting to diagnose system issues, identify performance bottlenecks, and recommend improvements to software architecture and database systems.

• Gênesis Tecnologia (genesiscloud.tec.br): Implemented improvements to web server, PHP-FPM, Redis, operating system, and application configurations, focusing on performance, bottleneck identification, and security issue analysis.

2022

Teacher @ Ada

Teaching DevOps, database and other classes, planning and creating lessons and exercises for the DevOps course

2021 - 2022

Engineer and Business Development Representative @ OTTera

Developed on an OTT platform using Drupal CMS and conducted client meetings, product demonstrations, and technical pre-sales activities that supported the company's entry into the Brazilian market

2021

Video Script Writer @ Código Fonte TV

Wrote a few video scripts for the "Programmer Dictionary" series in one of the largest YouTube tech channels in Brazil

2015

Teacher @ 4Linux

Teaching HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PhoneGap at the Web Development course

2013 - 2020

CTO and Co-Founder @ Curseduca

Co-founded and served as CTO of an e-learning SaaS platform for digital products and online courses. Created most platform features at the time and developed the backend in PHP and Zend Framework.

2013 - 2019

Team Lead and Solutions Architect @ MT4 Tecnologia, MediaPost and segura

  • Full-stack development with PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and NoSQL; DevOps engineering with AWS and on-premises infrastructure; and solutions architecture for a multi-company technology group
  • Led development and engineering teams at @MediaPost, an email marketing platform delivering more than 100,000,000 emails per month across 100+ AWS and on-premises servers for 1,000+ clients. Owned platform architecture, software development, DevOps, and maintenance
  • Developed cybersecurity features for segura, a Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution for infrastructure, servers, and data protection. Created a new Symfony-based framework for the platform

Training and Projects

2022 - current

Yampi

Delivered over 150 hours of trainings in tests, microservices, DevOps, Cloud, and more

2025

Rede Parcerias

Led a security training on processes and core concepts to strengthen policies, mitigate risks, and ensure data protection and compliance

2023

FusionAuth: https://fusionauth.io/blog/author/vinicius-campitelli/

Wrote articles about the FusionAuth platform, including a series on building secure and scalable CIAM solutions

2023

Analítica Soluções

Over 40 hours of training on Git and GitLab, enabling the company to proceed with a government procurement process

2021

Picolotec

Ran almost 70 hours of workshops about more than 10 subjects (cybersecurity, architecture, DevOps, cloud, and others)

2020 - 2021

PHPArch: https://www.phparch.com/community/vinicius-campitelli/

Wrote articles on cryptography and best practices for PHP developers

Education

2009 - 2012

Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Bachelor of Computer Science

Certifications

Languages

Portuguese

Native

English

Fluent

Spanish

Basic

Skills

Technologies

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Node
  • React
  • Vite
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript

Databases

  • Database Modeling
  • NoSQL
  • MongoDB
  • SQL
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • PostgreSQL

Cybersecurity

  • Information Security
  • Cryptography
  • Blue Team Ops
  • libsodium
  • openssl

Engineering

  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Architecture
  • Code Quality
  • Clean Architecture
  • SOLID
  • Object Calisthenics
  • Developer Relations / Developer Advocate

Infrastructure

  • Cloud
  • AWS
  • Networking
  • DevOps
  • CI/CD
  • Design System
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • Daemons
  • Git
  • Message Queue
  • Threads
  • WebSockets

Management

  • Team Management
  • Product Management
  • Process Management
  • Leadership
  • Agile methods

Talks

I spoke at great teach conferences in Brazil about PHP development, cybersecurity, engineering, APIs and several other subjects. The presentation slides for those talks are at viniciuscampitelli.com and you can watch some recordings from:

Português Codecon

What you need to know about authentication with JWT (watch)

Português PHP Community Summit

Online 2021 (watch)

Português PHP Community Summit

São Paulo 2019 (watch)
São Paulo 2018 (watch)

Português PHP Experience

São Paulo 2018 (watch)

Português Meetanços

Libsodium: Modern cryptography in PHP (watch)

Português PHPSP

PHPSP Live #21: Why worry about Security? (watch)

PHPSP Live! #30 Practical Docker: Creating a Complete Development Environment (watch)

English Midwest PHP

Real software security with PHP (watch)
libsodium: the modern cryptographic library for PHP 7 (watch)