Vinícius Calasans

Vinícius Calasans has gained a wide range of work experience in the field of software engineering and quantitative research. Vinícius started their career as an intern at Laboratory de Simulação e Controle - USP in 2011 and later interned at Instituto de Matemática e Estatística - Universidade de São Paulo (IME-USP) in 2012. In 2014, Vinícius worked as an intern at Arkema.

In 2016, they joined Lanx Capital Investimentos as a Quant Analyst & Software Engineer. There, they focused on market data analysis, valuation of fixed-income securities, strategy modeling, and backtesting. Vinícius also developed a financial data processing platform using Python, QuantLib, and MongoDB.

In 2018, Vinícius became a Senior Software Engineer at VTEX, where they contributed to the development of a serverless development platform for retailers. Vinícius was responsible for developer tools and implementing features for retail-oriented APIs.

In 2020, Vinícius joined JGP as a Tech Lead in Equities Quantitative Research and Software Development. Vinícius led the creation of a quantitative software framework for real-time investment strategy execution, monitoring, and backtesting. Vinícius also implemented web applications to provide traders with insights about market data and their portfolios.

Most recently, in 2022, Vinícius joined Harness as a Senior Software Engineer.

Vinícius Calasans began their education journey in 2010 at Escola Politécnica da USP, where they pursued a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) degree in Chemical Engineering. Vinícius successfully completed this program in 2016. Subsequently, from 2013 to 2016, Vinícius pursued further education at École Polytechnique, where they attained a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Chemical Engineering.