Summary
Alan Ferreira is a software engineer based in Bahia, Brazil, with around a decade of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems for the public and commercial sectors. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and PHP, and regularly applies TDD, microservices, Docker, AWS, PostgreSQL and Solr to deliver resilient, high-performance platforms such as a Learning Management System serving over 300,000 users. Alan has a track record of cost and performance optimization—halving Heroku dyno costs and dramatically speeding large-report queries with materialized views—and he brings practical legacy-to-modern migration experience from Clipper/Fivewin to C# and web stacks. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he focuses on operational excellence and measurable impact for large-scale, user-facing systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Pitágoras Faculdade
North Paraná University
Portuguese, English