Henrique Hirako, Developer in Santa Barbara, CA, United States
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Henrique Hirako

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Web Development Developer

Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Toptal member since March 11, 2019

Expertise
Web DevelopmentJavaScriptNode.jsReduxReact.jsAgile DevelopmentPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisRubyRuby on RailsJavaElasticsearchUnix
Bio

Henrique is a passionate software engineer looking for exciting challenges to make a difference with code. With a bachelor's degree in software engineering from UFG (Federal University of Goiás) and a professional certificate in software engineering from Harvard's extension school, he has worked on government and fintech. He is currently working in the healthtech sector.

Portfolio

Rebellion Pay
Redux, React, Node.js
Hashtag Beauty
Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, Redux, React, Node.js
Blogo
JavaScript, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Experience

  • Web Development - 6 years
  • JavaScript - 6 years
  • Test-driven Development (TDD) - 5 years
  • Node.js - 4 years
  • React - 3 years
  • Ruby - 3 years
  • Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Vim Text Editor, Git, Unix

The most amazing...

...project I've worked is Blogo, featured by Apple as one of the Best New Apps of 2016.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

2018 - 2019
Rebellion Pay
  • Created a web app with Node.js in the back-end; React, Redux, and SCSS in the front-end, and complete server-side rendering.
  • Implemented TDD for the API project and helped to implement it in the whole company.
  • Supported the development of the back-end and infrastructure on AWS.
  • Provided DevOps with Ansible on AWS.
  • Configured Gitlab Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment with Kubernetes and Ansible.
Technologies: Redux, React, Node.js

Lead Developer

2017 - 2018
Hashtag Beauty
  • Managed the development team, the web project, the API project, and infrastructure.
  • Architected the project.
  • Built the back-end using Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch; the front-end in React, Redux, and Sass; and infrastructure using AWS.
  • Worked mainly remotely, but also had batches of onsite work to set up the environment, patterns, and team, and later to launch the product.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, Redux, React, Node.js

Software Engineer

2015 - 2017
Blogo
  • Created the Blogo editor with vanilla JavaScript and highly specialized HTML features, such as content editable.
  • Built the API in Ruby on Rails.
  • Set up the infrastructure on AWS.
Technologies: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Senior Developer

2013 - 2015
Indra
  • Worked onsite for the main agency for finance in the state of Goiás.
  • Developed the main governmental program at the time, Nota Fiscal Goiana (NFG), with provisions to increase tax revenue by BRL 50 million per year.
  • Architected NFG and collaborated with two colleagues to develop the whole project. In a tech conservative environment, NFG was the first project to use Java 8, back in 2014 when Java 8 was launched.
Technologies: Social, Security, Batch, Data, Boot, Core, Spring, Java

Experience

Blogo

Blogo is a platform for bloggers, featured worldwide by Apple as Best New App of 2016. It was also selected by Evernote as one of the "Best New Startups of 2014." I was responsible for the editor which is written in JavaScript, plugins, and integration between the JavaScript and native code written in Objective-C. I also develop the web service written in Ruby on Rails.

Rebellion Pay

Rebellion is a fintech company based in Madrid, a "fully synchronized prepaid card and mobile app." In this project, I was fully responsible for their web project and, together with the CTO, I was responsible for the API development and the infrastructure.

Nota Fiscal Goiana

A project for helping the government to prevent tax fraud. It accomplishes this by offering benefits to citizens, like tax discounts and a monthly lottery giving away thousands of BRL each month and millions each year. As the head developer, I was responsible for the architecture and patterns, and with two other developers, we were responsible for its development and maintenance.

Education

2014 - 2016

Professional Graduate Certificate in Software Engineering

Harvard Extension School - Cambridge

2009 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering

Federal University of Goiás - Goiânia, Brazil

Certifications

JANUARY 2014 - PRESENT

MongoDB Certificate for Node.js

Mongo University

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, React

Tools

Vim Text Editor, Git

Languages

JavaScript, Ruby, Batch, Java

Frameworks

Redux, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Spring

Paradigms

Functional Programming, Test-driven Development (TDD), Object-oriented Programming (OOP)

Storage

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch

Platforms

Unix, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Other

Web Development, Core, Boot, Data, Security, Social, Software Architecture, Software Engineering

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