Pedro Cavalheiro

Currently helping the company to embrace the use of best software development practices, while mentoring less experienced colleagues, in order to increase the quality of software and internal processes.

Hired being responsible for improving the overall software quality of the company. Migrated from a legacy monolith to a REST API architecture with > 95% test coverage. Currently acting as one of the tech leaders, fostering the personal and professional growth of other team members, while working to maintain the software quality level as high as possible. Mostly working on the development of new features and architecture details, also helping other team members.

Worked on revitalizing a legacy web scraping project, increasing performance by 300%, while reducing costs to 1/20. This was achieved through several code improvements, as well as software architecture improvements, which allowed horizontal scalability. Today it is possible to have more crawled results, in less time, with fewer resources consumed on the servers. Also did some maintenance on the web applications, including new features and fixing bugs.

Taught classes in the disciplines "Programming Language II (Web)" and "Application Design" teaching students about the principles and fundamentals of web applications, as well as an introduction to technologies involved. Issues covered include HTML, CSS, PHP, and Databases. At the end of the classes, I helped the students developing a web application from scratch.

Initiated the development of a search marketing and SEO automation tool (http://www.smartsuite.com.br) using PHP and integrating with various APIs (Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Bing, etc), deploying the application to AWS. Responsible for influencing the team's culture about the importance of good development practices (SOLID, TDD, CI, etc). I also held small workshops about specific topics (JavaScript, OO, Git, etc.) to interested people.

Development of websites based on PHP, using tools like CodeIgniter, Kohana and WordPress. For the front-end, the tools were mostly jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, LESS, HTML5 Boilerplate, among others.

Using PHP, JavaScript (jQuery), SQL (PostgreSQL) and PL/pgSQL to develop a module for public education administration, which was integrated into the main ERP system (legacy). Done a lot of code refactoring, requirements analysis, and planning for usability enhancements and user interface.