Academic background
University
Major in Electrical Engineering, focused on Power Systems & Automation, at the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo, June 2006.
High & elementary schools
Bandeirantes School concluded in 1999.
Professional background
Locaweb November 2007 - current
Locaweb is largest web hosting company in Latin America and has other services such as e-mail, VoIP and SaaS applications.
I started working in the Applications team, developing satellite applications for the hosting platform such as streaming media services, Urchin-based web stats, hosting reselling among others.
On July 2008, I joined the E-mail Architecture team to work on the full stack for a new mail platform based on a third-party proprietary mail server and Locaweb systems to provide custom business logic and frontends for customers. The development of this platform took a 6 months year to get to production and we used Java, PHP and C. It currently handles 500.000+ accounts and is the default platform for new customers, providing additional features as mobile phone sync, calendaring, instant messaging and others. I spent another year adding features to the platform and supporting the system operation before the company decided to split the developer and system administrator careers and let only system administrators handle production systems.
In the last couple of months, I'm working on replacing Locaweb's legacy mail platform that handles 1.7+ million accounts to increase it's scalability and availability.
This legacy system is written using Perl, PHP and C backed by a MySQL cluster and is being replaced by systems written in Pyhon, C, 2 domain specific languages, Ruby and Go. This new system will also make use of more distributed databases like local instances of MongoDB and BDB generated from the central MySQL cluster and make extensive use of Memcached. All work is done very close to the system administrators that are assembling the architecture and run the current system in production.
Media Contacts Brazil November 2005 - November 2007
Media Contacts is Havas Media's (Havas group) interactive agency that provides media-focused marketing solutions across all digital and direct response channels.
I started at Media Contacts working for the technology department that was responsible for developing advertisement solutions based on creative work, specially sites and small web applications.
Soon I started to work with other areas to develop tools for optimizing their tasks such as reporting automation tools, databases and Search Engine Marketing campaign creation, management and reporting tools covering Google AdWords and Yahoo! Panama platforms.
Concurrently I started working with technologies the company hadn't worked with before such as Geomashups, desktop widgets/gadgets etc and I was later given responsibility for a new department: Research & Development. This department has the mission of coming up with new technology-based products and innovations and had 3 people working in it.
Me & my team kept working on internal productivity tools and we developed many professional and personal relations with the teams in offices on other countries, specially Spain, USA and UK.
I was also a member of the company's Global Technology Team, responsible for internal collaboration tools (internal blog, wiki etc) and helped the development of the company's lead product on media insight and reporting tool: Artemis.
hardMOB January 2002 - April 2007
hardMOB is a game-related web community, hosted by a large ISP and ran by a group of friends as part-time job.
I was responsible for systems & network management, taking care of servers running Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, administrating DNS, Email, Web, IRC, FTP services, managing and optimizing MySQL databases and developing remote management applications using PHP/Perl/Python/Bash.
Poli Junior December 2001 to June 2005
Poli Junior is a junior enterprise, created & ran by students of the Polytechnic School with the support of the School and its teachers.
At Poli Junior I worked as a software engineer and developer. Designing and building web based applications (CRM, ERP, e-commerce etc) using PHP/Python and some RDBMS (usually MySQL or PostgreSQL).
Veritel Teleinformática November 1998 to July 1999
Veritel was an investor focused data service company. Offering its clients relevant information from several markets such as agriculture, cattle among others.
At Veritel I've worked as a system and network administrator, managing Solaris and Linux servers and their integration with a windows client network.
The team and I implemented linux-based firewalls, dial-up network authentication using Radius/LDAP, mail servers, databases, web services to query those databases and web mail applications.
Lectured courses
CEE/Poli-USP's PHP & MySQL winter course
An entry-level course lectured during the winter of 2004 together with the student union of the electrical engineering department at Polytechnic School with the certification of the Computer & Digital Systems Engineering department.
Technical skills
I have advanced knowledge of PHP (4.4/5.x), Java (1.4-6.0) J2SE and J2EE, C/C++, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, (x)HTML(5), CSS, XML, XSL/XSTL.
I have moderate knowledge of ASP, ASP.NET and the .NET framework (2.0/3.x).
I've worked with higly popular RDBMS systems such as MySQL (3/4/5), PostgreSQL (7/8), Oracle (9/10) and MS SQL Server (2000/2005/2008). I've also worked with non-relational databases such as MongoDB and Redis.
Spoken Languages
I'm a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker; I'm fluent in English, both written and spoken, and I have a basic knowledge of Spanish: intermediate reading and hearing, basic speaking and writing.
Extra-curricular activities
Collaborator of the electrical engineering student union April to December 2004
Helping to organize events, courses, presentations, workshops & parties
Teacher's assistant for the Biotechnology Project Bandeirantes School, March to November 1999
Participant as one of the teacher's assistants, guiding & helping the new participants.
Participant of the Biotechnology Project Bandeirantes School, March to November 1998
Project executed during high school, involving discussions, debates & production of papers about biotechnology, ethics & its impact on society.
Personal information
- Date of birth:
- July 25, 1982
- Birthplace and current home:
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Citizenship:
- Brazilian and in the final stages for receiving Spanish citizenship as well
- Marital Status:
- Single