André Bernardes
Verified Expert in Engineering
Ruby on Rails Developer
André is a highly-motivated software engineer. Ruby is his general purpose language of choice, and he writes Rails apps both professionally and for fun. He deeply believes in Agile practices and his personal motivation is pushing code to production and seeing how it makes someone's life better.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, MacOS, Vim Text Editor, Tmux
The most amazing...
...thing I've worked on is a rescue project in which I turned a 10k LOC pile of Rails code into something maintainable.
Work Experience
Software Engineer
IntegraGRP
- Served as lead developer in a team of 6.
- Split a large codebase into more easily maintainable services.
- Mentored junior engineers on the team.
- Reviewed code.
- Replaced unstructured JavaScript code with Backbone.
Software Developer
MacX Sistemas
- Turned a 10k LOC pile of Rails code into a maintainable project.
- Refactored fat controllers and models into business components.
- Wrote a test suite for the application, starting with acceptance specifications and slowly adding more tests all the way down to the unit level.
- Wrote a PDF signing tool with Ruby and Java.
- Redesigned both the code and the UI of a complex billing report into a better and more performant solution.
Experience
Feed Duck
https://github.com/abernardes/feed_duckNothing But The Funk feed reader
https://github.com/abernardes/nbtfThis is still a work in progress.
Skills
Languages
Ruby, SQL, Java, Elixir, JavaScript, Clojure
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Phoenix, Ember.js, AngularJS
Paradigms
Agile Software Development
Platforms
Oracle, MacOS, Linux
Libraries/APIs
Backbone.js, Facebook API, GitHub API, jQuery
Tools
Tmux, Vim Text Editor, Git
Storage
PostgreSQL
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Catholic University of Campinas - Campinas-SP, Brazil
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