Paulo Abreu
Mentor
(485 reviews)
US$20.00
For every 15 mins
406
Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
Experienced Ruby on Rails developer and teacher
Experienced Ruby on Rails developer and teacher
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!
Portuguese, English
Lisbon (+01:00)
Joined September 2014
EXPERTISE
18 years experience | 73 endorsements
I found Ruby around 2004 when I've started a local hosting business. I'd used it on and off till 2010. Since then I've been using it as m...
I found Ruby around 2004 when I've started a local hosting business. I'd used it on and off till 2010. Since then I've been using it as my main programming tool.
17 years experience | 108 endorsements
Since the beginning ... you can't find better than that!
Since the beginning ... you can't find better than that!
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(485 reviews)
Viviana
May 2022
Thanks again for the quick help for which would have probably taken me another day to figure out :)
Viviana
May 2022
Helped me fix a problem I was struggling with for three days. I'm so happy right now!
Matt
October 2017
Expert knowledge, highly recommended.
Nathan R
September 2017
helped me troubleshoot a stripe issue and clean up my css
Nathan R
August 2017
Helped me figure out some strange routing and active class issues
Nathan R
August 2017
Awesome session. We connected to Amazon's Product API and grabbed product data for my app.
Nathan R
August 2017
helped me fix two bugs in my app
Nathan R
August 2017
Paulo helped me resolve some S3 security issues and did a bunch of research to help me. Also helped me resolve a heroku issue that had crashed my whole app. Really saved me today!
Nathan R
July 2017
Fixed my auth issue and resolved an activity feed issue, also helped me research some mailboxer gem questions and talk through my S3 file security issues
Nathan R
July 2017
Helped we solve 3 bugs in my app and set up a smarter way to manage time zones across my app.
SOCIAL PRESENCE
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Setup a basic rails environment in OSX
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Setup
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EMPLOYMENTS
Developer
JamNet
2017-04-01-Present
JamNet is a social network for musicians. I'm the developer leader.
JamNet is a social network for musicians. I'm the developer leader.
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Software Developer - Owner
ClusterCube
2007-03-01-Present
Focused on software development, as well as executive direction, business prospecting, and the management of product, project, and team.
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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.
Ruby
C#
Ruby on Rails
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C#
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Software Developer - Founder
Cluster Cube
2003-03-01-2010-01-01
Representative Microsoft .NET projects
● Ford: fordconcessionarios.com, aggregation of the Portuguese Ford stands. Technologies: .NET 4...
Representative Microsoft .NET projects
● Ford: fordconcessionarios.com, aggregation of the Portuguese Ford stands. Technologies: .NET 4, DotNetNuke 4.
● Caixa Geral de Depósitos, migration from C++ to .NET 1.1 of the internal ATM network (Caixa Directa). Tecnologies: .NET 1.1 e 2.0, SQlite, ADO.NET, C# 1.0, C++.
● EuroAtlantic Airways – Crew Management: working hours and crew constitution following the european and international legislation. Crew optimization.
Technologies: .NET 3.5, ASP.NET MVC 1.0, C# 3.0, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Reports e WPF, Linq.
● Staples Office Center: customer card management and customer reports.
Tecnologies: .NET 4.0, ASP.NET, C# 4.0, SQL Server 2008.
● Cimpor (cement): App to track the concrete building process. Technologies: .NET Windows Forms, VB.NET
● Viviscal: news service at viviscal.pt.
Tecnologies: .NET 4.0, ASP.NET MVC 2.0, C# 4.0, SQL Server 2008, Entity Framework, ExtJS
C#
C++
Entity Framework
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Entity Framework
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