Vinicius Mesel is a founding software engineer and entrepreneur in São Paulo with 10 years building production ML and web systems. He founded and maintains talkd.ai, an open-source tool to deploy LLMs in under five minutes, and was the first Brazilian—and sole representative in the AI cohort—of the GitHub Accelerator. At Buser he built an award-winning GenAI chat agent (LangGraph, OpenAI, pgvector) with a human-in-the-loop workflow that improved CSAT by 9%. His hands-on stack covers Linux sysadmin for LLM servers, Python microservices (FastAPI, Celery, Redis), PostgreSQL and SSO/Django systems. An active open-source contributor, he has made pragmatic backend improvements to projects like pREST by extending Postgres operators and tests. Trained in computer engineering with an MBA in Data Engineering and early research in biomathematics/bioinformatics, he pairs scientific rigor with product-focused GenAI engineering.
PostgreSQL ➕ REST, low-code, simplify and accelerate development, ⚡ instant, realtime, high-performance on any Postgres application, existing or new
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:31 reviews, 56 commits, 18 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vinicius primarily contributed to the pREST project by implementing and testing new features related to database operators, specifically focusing on `NOT LIKE` and `NOT ILIKE` operations. They added these new operators to the `postgres.go` and `postgres_test.go` files, which indicates a focus on extending the core functionality of the API's database interaction capabilities. Furthermore, they modified the `doc.go` and `config/config_test.go` files. These changes show the user's involvement in improving the testing coverage, and maintaining code consistency.
Contributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 13 PRs in 6 months
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