Vitor Pelizza

Vitor Pelizza has a diverse and extensive work experience in the software engineering and management field. Vitor currently holds the position of Director of Engineering at SmartBear, where they lead a team of 25+ individuals across four different teams and locations. Vitor is responsible for managing managers, coaching and mentoring new and experienced managers, and overseeing the development of one team.

Prior to their current role, Vitor worked as a Senior Engineering Manager at SmartBear, specifically managing the engineering of TM4J (now Zephyr Scale) after its acquisition from Adaptavist. Vitor led the migration of TM4J's infrastructure and managed the Zephyr Scale team.

Before joining SmartBear, Vitor served as an Engineering Manager and Development Lead at Adaptavist, where they oversaw the development of multiple products and managed multiple development teams. Vitor also played a key role in developing and driving the vision of TM4J, leading the development of its on-premises and cloud versions.

Vitor's work experience also includes founding and co-developing three products for the Atlassian Marketplace at Kanoah. Vitor worked as a Co-Founder and developed Kanoah Checklist, Kanoah CRM, and Kanoah Tests, the latter being the most successful and core product of the company.

Additionally, Vitor has experience as a Quality Analyst at Softplan Planejamento de Sistemas LTDA, where they supported teams in process and method analysis, trained developers on automated testing and software quality practices, and worked on optimization and quality improvement.

Earlier in their career, Vitor held positions at OnCast as a Chief Technology Officer, Team Leader, and Software Engineer, where they focused on web application development using Java, Ruby, and .NET. Vitor worked on small and large projects, utilized agile principles, and gained expertise in Java language, JEE, GWT, JSF, EJB, swing applications, and automated tests.

Before joining OnCast, Vitor worked as a Software Engineer at Palmsoft Tecnologia, specializing in mobile game development using the JavaME framework. Vitor developed a game engine and used an ant build script to automate game building for various platforms.

Overall, Vitor Pelizza's work experience showcases their strong background in software engineering, leadership, product development, and quality assurance.

Vitor Pelizza has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, which they obtained from 2004 to 2008. Vitor also holds an MBA in Project Management from FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas, which they completed from 2010 to 2012. In addition, Vitor has been certified as a Scrum Master by Caelum Ensino e Inovação in 2008.