Carlos Palhares

Belo Horizonte - State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Member since July 15, 2015

Carlos is interested in consulting, web applications, mobile development, tests, operational systems, and hacking small and big things. He's got great experience with software design, agile methodologies, and programming languages. He also loves to delete unnecessary code! His mottos are “less code, fewer bugs” and “design for the sake of the next guy.”

Ruby Ruby on Rails (RoR)SQL JavaScript Java C#Linux jQuery Mac DB2 AngularJS React.js MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Show more

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Portfolio

Power Home Remodeling
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Docker, Phoenix, Elixir, React, Redux, Asterisk, Adhearsion
Wobo, Inc
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Puppet, Ansible, Node.js, Angular
Bearch, Inc
Ruby on Rails, Objective-C, Ruby

Experience

SQL, 10 years
JavaScript, 8 years
Ruby, 6 years
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), 6 years
Ruby on Rails (RoR), 6 years
Jasmine, 3 years
AngularJS, 2 years
C#, 2 years

Belo Horizonte - State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Mac OS, VS Code, iTerm2, Git

The most amazing...

...project I've participated in was a system to calculate and control the flow of a gas transportation service across the USA, Canada, and Mexico.

Employment

Senior Software Engineer
Power Home Remodeling
2016 - PRESENT
- Refactored a really large Ruby/Rails application to scale.
- Helped and trained new inexperienced developers, bringing them up to speed to contribute to the project.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Docker, Phoenix, Elixir, React, Redux, Asterisk, Adhearsion
Senior Software Engineer
Wobo, Inc
2013 - 2016
- Led projects.
- Projected and developed a store with high-performance ETL.
- Developed a deploy/build system with Ansible.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Puppet, Ansible, Node.js, Angular
Senior Software Engineer
Bearch, Inc
2013 - 2013
- Developed a production-level native iOS app.
- Developed a solid RESTful API following the HAL Specification.
- Created rich JS web interfaces.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Objective-C, Ruby
Software Development Senior Consultant
ThoughtWorks, Inc.
2011 - 2013
- Developed a rich web application for developing standardized test handling from user input to test print.
- Worked on the cloud control interface of a major US cloud provider.
- Automated the cloud control deployment through IRC bots.
- Worked on multiple roles as developer, devops, and QA.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, C#, .NET, Bash, JavaScript

Experience

Rackspace Cloud Control Panel (Development)
A legacy web application that provides a control panel for the different hosting and cloud products that Rackspace provides. The project is focused towards maintaining and improving the wep application and accommodating the changes required by the new features and products Rackspace provides.
Half Price Books (Development)
Developed the eCommerce platform for a major used bookstore with a team of ten, supporting over 8 million products, marketplace, and stock integration.
Chrome Extension to Annotate Online Pages (Development)
Developed a Chrome extension (and back-end) to add annotations through written notes, screenshots, and crops on any web page as well as a dashboard where a user could share their notes with other users and groups.
Measured Progress (Development)
Worked as a developer and consultant in a project to migrate a web application to support the creation of K-12 tests and assessments.

The project was heavily based on the client side, using JavaScript and a set of tools to allow editing texts and media. The back-end was C# MVC 2 and NHibernate for persistance. Something compared to a text processor like OpenOffice Writer.

Technology/Tools: JavaScript, C#, Java, HTML, CSS, NHibernate, Web Driver, Git-SVN, MS SQL and JBehave.
Multi-Pipeline Commercial System Suite (Development)
I was part of the team implementing a new web-based commercial systems suite to support the entire North American gas pipeline portfolio, interfacing and co-existing with current legacy systems. As a senior developer, I was actively involved in designing, implementing, and testing new features in an incremental fashion. I also supported the business analysts to identify, define, and analyze these features. As a part of a distributed agile team, I regularly collaborated with business stakeholders, analysts, testers, and other developers.

Skills

Languages
Ruby, Java, C#, SQL, JavaScript, Python, Objective-C, C++, HTML, HTML5, CSS3, CSS
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Redux, Jasmine, AngularJS, Ionic, ASP.NET MVC
Tools
Sublime Text, RSpec, Sublime Text 3
Paradigms
REST, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Imperative programming, Concurrent Programming
Other
HTTP, HAL
Libraries/APIs
React.js, jQuery, JSON API, AngularUI, Redux Form
Platforms
Mac, Linux, iOS, Android
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DB2, CouchDB, Cassandra

Education

Post-Baccalaureate degree in Software Engineering
Federal University of Minas Gerais - Minas Gerais/Brazil
2011 - 2012
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais - Minas Gerais/Brazil
2006 - 2010

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