Personal details

Paulo A.

Ruby on Rails developer and mentor

Based in: 🇵🇹 Portugal

Timezone: Lisbon (UTC+1)

Summary

Customer-centric and business-focused software developer with 25+ years of experience, predominantly via remote work. Ruby on Rails expert for 17 years. Well-rounded web developer in tens of different fields with extensive business, entrepreneurial, & management experience. Excels at analyzing, understanding, and building on others’ code.

Work Philosophy: Sees software as a tool to solve business problems and increase the bottom line. Cares about details and builds software that works without major issues. Follows The Rails Doctrine. Supports The Majestic Monolith pattern. Does not believe in prematurely disintegrated systems.

Mentored, Guided, & Coached hundreds of junior and intermediate developers, career switchers, and entrepreneurs.

Passionate about software technology, particularly in SaaS (software as a service) web applications.

Specialties:

Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Mentoring.
Software Analysis, Web Applications, Software Methodologies.
Damage control
Bug Magnet!

Technical skills

Top 3 skills

Ruby・18 yrs Ruby on Rails・17 yrs

Work Experience

Developer

JamNet | Apr 2017 - Present

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

JamNet is a social network for musicians. I'm the developer leader.

Software Developer - Owner

ClusterCube | Mar 2007 - Present

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Focused on software development, as well as executive direction, business prospecting, and the management of product, project, and team. Originally started as a hosting business and morphed into a web development company. Was a pioneer in Ruby on Rails hosting services (2005-2009), and one of the first Portuguese companies to provide Ruby on Rails software services (2004-2022). Representative Ruby on Rails projects: ● Cligest, Serviços Médicos e Farmacêuticos Lda (healthcare): Document Management Platform. ● Universidade Nova - Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (healthcare). * PHC - Personal Health Care - Online platform targeting primary healthcare, remotely helping doctors and nurses to monitor patients through questionnaires, messages, alerts, voice and video calls. The project is used in some state family health units in the greater Lisbon area. Collects data for scientific research. * ePharmaCare: A web application used in pharmacies to track medication, biochemical and physiologic data from chronic patients used in scientific research. * Turning Point HR Solutions Ltd (jobs): ORBIT Pro© benchmarking software, salary benchmarking & pay review services at both senior executive and operational levels. * VipCampingClub.com: Weekend camping events reservation. * Startups: * Woops!Booking: On-spot last-minute hotel/hostel deals for travelers without reservation. * JobSpeaker: Provides software services to educational institutions to help their students bridge the gap between education and the workforce. And to help those institutions meet the new demands of the marketplace (from employers, regulators and students). * Gaspier: A simple online fuel ordering network to receive fuel prices and place orders instantly.