Dalton Pinto
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Visby, Sweden
Toptal member since June 30, 2017
Dalton has founded a successful startup and has worked as a team leader, consultant, and developer. He's earned a master's degree in mathematics where he pursued distinct challenges. Dalton is now working for a rapidly growing Brazilian fintech and is now taking on interesting projects.
Portfolio
Experience
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 10 years
- Ruby - 10 years
- PostgreSQL - 10 years
- JavaScript - 10 years
- Redis - 6 years
- Docker - 5 years
- Node.js - 4 years
- Payment Gateways - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Docker, MacOS, Linux
The most amazing...
...projects I've worked on were as a founder of Quero Education (YC S16) and helping build a fintech with a 30% market share of the Brazilian payment market.
Work Experience
Software Architect
Pagar.me
- Optimized intensive database operations on PostgreSQL.
- Developed their core payments API and its integrations.
- Created integrations with a payment acquirer, as a software architect.
- Scaled up their ledger systems to be capable of processing millions of wallets.
Senior Back-end Engineer
Toptal
- Helped extract billing-related GraphQL endpoints from monolith architecture to another service.
- Managed a custom federated GraphQL service that allowed us to move from monolith architecture to an SOA.
- Handled many distinct services owned by our team, such as email tracking, API gateway, and others.
Co-founder, CTO
Classpert
- Co-founded the company since its first day when we had only three people.
- Built the index of courses that were extracted from crawling partners. At the time, we had around 100,000 courses listed in many distinct languages.
- Integrated our system with affiliate programs such as Rakuten and AWIN.
Founder
Quero Bolsa
- Conducted development work on all the main projects and its pivots since day one.
- Structured and handled all the scrapped Brazilian university data so that it could be usable.
- Created a customer relationship service with the phone for our call center using Asterisk.
- Collaborated in almost everything tech-related, from designing our internal network to supporting a low-jitter connection.
Tech Lead
Codeminer 42
- Led a few development teams.
- Designed the architecture of a few new projects.
- Developed a recommender system.
- Solved problems that were related to statistics hypothesis tests on rare events.
Experience
Manatee
https://github.com/akidog/manateeThis project runs JavaScript inside a Ruby environment—allowing a server-side rendering with JavaScript on Ruby web applications.
Education
Master's Degree in Pure and Applied Mathematics
Universidade Federal do ABC | UFABC - São Paulo, Brazil
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Technological Institute of Aeronautics | ITA - São Paulo, Brazil
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Node.js, Rails Engines, Stripe, PostgREST
Tools
Git, RSpec, Docker Hub, Vagrant, Terraform, Elastic
Languages
Ruby, JavaScript, GraphQL, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Go, Python
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Express.js, minitest
Paradigms
Agile, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Test-driven Development (TDD)
Platforms
Docker, Apache Kafka, MacOS, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku
Storage
Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
Other
Payment Gateways, APIs, Back-end, Concurrency, Scalable Web Services, Software Architecture, Architecture, Full-stack, Computer Engineering, Probability Theory
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