João Souto
Lead Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Souto is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of industry and research experience building efficient computing solutions, currently driving R&D at Cadence Design Systems. He blends academic rigor—MSc in Computer Science from UFSC and a summa cum laude BSc—with hands-on systems work developing a distributed operating system for lightweight manycore processors. His background spans verification IP, manycore communication APIs, and physical design tooling, reflecting deep expertise in low-level, performance-critical software. Known for favoring simplicity as a route to reliability, he has transitioned research prototypes into production-grade components and led cross-functional teams through complex designs. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, João pairs a strong research pedigree with practical delivery experience across academia and industry. An early career in prepress operations also gives him an uncommon operational perspective on production workflows and process rigor.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Science, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaHigh school, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, High school, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at E. E. B. Romildo Czepanhik
Github Skills (45)
verilog10
euler10
symbolic-math10
mathematics10
cas10
hardware10
operating-system10
unix9
javascript9
physical-design9
computer-algebra-system9
eda9
formal-languages9
x869
vhdl9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joaovicentesouto/INE5421
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Formal Languages and Compilers
Contributions:161 commits, 40 PRs, 138 pushes in 1 month
compilerformal-languages
nanvix/benchmarks
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Benchmarks for Nanvix
Contributions:115 commits, 6 PRs, 131 pushes in 2 years 6 months
benchmarkbenchmarksnanvix
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