Software Engineer working on cloud-native infrastructure. At Capgemini Engineering, with Nokia as the client, I run Helm rolling upgrades on Kubernetes for production telecom systems serving 5M+ subscribers and configure traffic routing for highly available services.
Systems foundation from 42 Lisboa (C/C++, Linux, processes), with hands-on experience in Docker, Nginx, Terraform and AWS.
Finance dashboard built for budgeting, expense tracking, reporting, financial projections, savings planning, and daily money management. Local data storage and optional AI-powered assistance, built for Linux, MacOS and Windows
Cloud-based full-stack photography platform deployed on AWS, with all infrastructure written in Terraform (EC2, EBS, S3, ECR, Route 53, IAM). Least-privilege, SSH-free design: Secrets Manager and SSM for config, IAM instance roles instead of static keys, and a private encrypted S3 bucket for media. Low-cost single-instance architecture with a documented scale-out path to ECS Fargate, ALB and CloudFront. Integrates Stripe Checkout with signed webhooks, Google OAuth/Calendar and SMTP, covered by a Vitest suite.
HTTP/1.1 server built from scratch in C++ with no external libraries. A single non-blocking poll() event loop serves multiple ports, static files, uploads and CGI (Python, Node.js), and handles malformed and slow clients.
Sorting algorithm project that sorts a stack of integers using a limited set of operations. The goal is to sort the numbers in ascending order with the fewest possible moves.
Unix-like shell in C with processes, pipes, redirections, environment variables and built-ins, plus logical operators (&&, ||) and wildcard expansion.
Multi-threaded program based on the dining philosophers problem, focused on threads, mutexes, timing, and synchronization.
Small 2D game built with the MiniLibX library, working with textures, sprites, maps, movement, and basic gameplay elements.
Multi-container infrastructure designed and deployed with Docker and Docker Compose: Nginx (TLS), WordPress and MariaDB, each in its own container.
Client: Nokia · Cloud-native telecom infrastructure
Software Engineering Programme · Present
C/C++, OOP, system fundamentals and low-level memory management
Network and Systems Administration, Technical Specialist Course · 2025
Built and maintained Windows and Linux servers; configured networks with Cisco Packet Tracer
Professional High School Diploma in Multimedia
Level 3
Level 1
Level 1
Portuguese (native) · English (C2) · French (A2)
Hi! I'm Vinicius Vaz Cascais, a Software Engineer based in Lisbon, currently focused on cloud and cloud-native infrastructure.
Day to day I work with Kubernetes, Helm and OpenShift on production telecom platforms, where upgrades have to land with zero downtime and every routing change matters. On the side I build and deploy my own projects on AWS with Terraform, aiming for secure, least-privilege and low-cost designs.
My foundation comes from 42 Lisboa and a background in network and systems administration: C/C++, Linux, processes and networking. Knowing what happens underneath the containers is what I enjoy most about cloud work.
For more details, check my resume and links above, or reach me at vinivc04@gmail.com.
