Nuno C.

Nuno C.

Senior Software Engineer

Lisbon, Portugal
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About Me

I am an expert Ruby on Rails Developer with a decade's worth of expertise and international exposure; iterating high-quality solutions for different client-facing websites/applications, APIs and ETLs. I have 5+ years of remote work experience - working with diverse remote teams to gather functional requirements, develop technical specifications and deliver the right solutions on projects.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
2019 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Kajima Community
Kajima Community
Ruby on Rails Developer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Northampton, United Kingdom
  • Contributed to the BookingsPlus project; developing a tailored bookings solution for the NHS Property Services.

  • Built new features and feature enhancements; by contributing to ongoing maintenance of the bookings solution.

  • Embraced solid development practices, provided constructive pull-request reviews and maintained existing functionality for the client.

Soho House & Co.
Soho House & Co.
Ruby on Rails Developer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
London, United Kingdom
  • Developed and improved software solutions used on integration tasks between Soho Works and Salesforce.

  • Collaborated with other developers to solve complex user cases, improved implementations, and reviewed code for efficiency.

  • Resolved defects/bugs during QA testing of software solutions, pre-production, production, and post-production releases.

Healios
Healios
Ruby on Rails Developer
2018 - 2018
Southampton, United Kingdom
  • Designed, developed and implemented a user-facing feature to allocate clients to clinicians and schedule future bookings.

  • Worked on the iteration of several screenings being rendered to children on Healios' platform.

  • Wrote robust, scalable, well-designed, easily maintainable and well-tested software that delivered great value to the business.

Coca Cola European Partners (via Zone Digital)
Coca Cola European Partners (via Zone Digital)
Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer
2017 - 2017
London, United Kingdom
  • Steered the implementation of CCEP's intranet website in a few more countries.

  • Improved user engagement with CCEP's news sections on the homepage.

  • Designed robust, scalable and secure features on the solution.

BookingBug
BookingBug
Ruby on Rails Developer
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
London, United Kingdom
  • Reviewed requirements, specifications, and technical documents for the development of an ETL solution for the new integration API with a US Bank.

  • Explored technical trade-offs in the implementation of tickets relating to the API.

  • Wrote solutions that were simple, maintainable, and reusable; improving the scalability and performance of Bookingbug's platform.

Public Health England
Public Health England
Ruby on Rails Developer
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
London, United Kingdom
  • Restructured the Campaign Resource website; applying better programming patterns and tidying up the models into solid concerns and services.

  • Increased the website's test coverage; by implementing unit and feature tests on the solution for efficiency.

  • Followed the latest coding techniques, standard practices and approaches on the project.

Rise To
Rise To
Ruby on Rails Developer
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
  • Actively participated in Rise To's engineering culture rooted in collaboration, humility, trust, responsibility, and learning.

  • Contributed to all phases of the development lifecycle within Rise To; writing clean, maintainable and efficient Ruby on Rails code for projects.

  • Identified bottlenecks and bugs, and devised solutions to complex problems on Rise To's platform.

Skype in the Classroom
Skype in the Classroom
Ruby on Rails Developer
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
  • Developed software and technology solutions for Skype for Teachers app.

  • Reviewed designs, code and unit test plans where applicable; testing and debugging code for the Skype for Teachers platform.

  • Enhanced the consistency and maintainability of solutions by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures.

HomeServe Alliance
HomeServe Alliance
Ruby Developer
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
  • Offered guidance for the development of a gem to import data into an Amazon Redshift database.

  • Engineered solutions on the website to display metrics stored on the Redshift Database.

  • Built microservices to the database for the website to deliver targets for the client's outbound email campaigns.

Tesco Plc
Tesco Plc
Backend Ruby Developer
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
  • Worked on the backend development and engineering of a supply chain system for Tesco.

  • Designed and built an online mainframe emulator with the ability to support multi-language translations.

  • Actively participated in the setting up of standards to select criteria for tools/tech stack on the project.

Portfolio

Ruby on Rails Developer - iCarePT (Near real-time Monitoring)
Ruby on Rails Developer - iCarePT (Near real-time Monitoring)

Worked on a solution for near real-time monitoring of customer experiences. The solution monitors and records every single aspect of the user experience from IVR to the call centres, websites and other means. This serves as the source data for the production of infographics in the form of dashboards, graphs, flows and reports for the client and enables the team to build wallboards and web apps to explore the data. It has features for an alarm and notification system that detects problems and alerts teams to respond

Ruby on Rails Developer - LM Translator
Ruby on Rails Developer - LM Translator

Developed an online mainframe emulator with support for multi-language translations using Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, ApolloMQ, MySQL, other JavaScript libs and Ruby gems, and Unix shell scripting. Sped up improvements on the project by automating processes for quick delivery and efficiency.

Ruby on Rails Developer - LMI Connect
Ruby on Rails Developer - LMI Connect

LMI Connect is a web application for connecting, scraping and handling user interaction with Tesco's legacy s3270 based logistics management (mainframe) system. The system makes deployment and translation of information to group countries in Thai, Hungary, Czech and Korea easy. The app was built with BackboneJS, Underscore/MousetrapJS/JQuery for the frontend app model structure, rendering and DOM manipulation. Contributed to the Redhat Linux, Apache and MySQL installation, configuration and maintenance from sources in a jailed environment.

Education

Education
Engineer's Degree in Computer Software Engineering
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2002 - 2008 (6 years)
Education
Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
2011