Vin Souza

I volunteered to lead the development of the website of the Vancouver AI Summit conference that took place in November 2024. It was a great opportunity to put into practice what I had been learning on my post-graduation and I consider it my first Canadian work experience.

The site is live here

As a full-stack .NET developer, I would work on web apps for the Transit Department of my homestate in Brazil, which were to be used by millions of drivers and officers.

More specifically, the app I was responsible for most of the time was a vehicle control system that allowed services scheduling, vehicle registration and updating, and reports generation. I would work together with a team of developers on new features and improvements for this system. Moreover, this position required strong Software Engineering skills for code optimization.

Other responsabilities involved code versioning with Tortoise SVN and project planning with Agile (SCRUM).

Millennium IE is a local print shop based in the same city where I went to university. The apps I worked on were different web-based control systems for both the company's employees and clients, and they required caution from me, as the information I was dealing with was sensitive.

As the only developer at that small company, I was responsible for the entire process of software development, from design to coding, testing, and deployment. Additionally, I had to learn by myself most of the technologies used in the project, since that was my very first professional experience with web development. It was a tremendously valuable experience, and I left that job confident that I could learn easily any technology necessary for a project.

Aside from a complete redesign of their system towards a more modern and pleasant UI, my biggest legacy there was a program written in Java that automated the very tiring and time-consuming task of gathering data from an API and storing in the database at regular intervals.

This course on the edX platform was my entry point to the career path of web development. Offered by Harvard's CS50 program, this course was not only an excellent introduction to the topic, but it also helped me discover my passion for app development.

This course dives deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.

As part of my final project, I did a very simple but special website called JSnake, that is detailed in my portfolio. At the end of that very intense program, I earned my first professional Certificate, that you can find here

The UFCG Computer Science course is one of the oldest and most celebrated in the IT field throughout Brazil.

The four-year program taught me a little bit of everything about computers. I gained a strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), as well as Java, Python, unit testing, machine learning, software engineering and architecture, project management, among other skills.