Nuno C.

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.

AI, ML & LLM

Frontend

Backend

Database

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
2019 - Present (6 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.

Showcase

Ruby on Rails Developer - iCarePT (Near real-time Monitoring)
Ruby on Rails Developer - iCarePT (Near real-time Monitoring)
  • Developed a solution for near real-time monitoring of customer experiences across various touchpoints (IVR, websites, etc.).

  • The solution collects and records data from diverse sources, serving as a primary data source for infographics and dashboards.

  • Implemented an alarm and notification system to detect problems and trigger alerts for team response.

Ruby on Rails Developer - LM Translator
Ruby on Rails Developer - LM Translator
  • Developed an online mainframe emulator with multi-language translation capabilities.

  • Utilized Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, ApolloMQ, MySQL, and JavaScript libraries for project development.

  • Implemented automation processes to improve project delivery and efficiency.

Ruby on Rails Developer - LMI Connect
Ruby on Rails Developer - LMI Connect
  • LMI Connect is a web application for managing user interaction with Tesco's legacy s3270 logistics management system.

  • It facilitates deployment and translation of information to group countries in Thai, Hungary, Czech, and Korea.

  • The application was developed using BackboneJS, Underscore/MousetrapJS/JQuery for the frontend, and Redhat Linux, Apache, and MySQL for infrastructure.

Education

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