Alberto Leal
Engineering Manager at Uber
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlberto Leal is an engineering manager with over 17 years of hands-on software and architecture experience, now leading teams at Uber from São Paulo. He specializes in back-end systems across a wide language palette (PHP, Shell, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Go) and has a strong track record driving cloud-native and payments infrastructure at Shopify, VMware/Tanzu and Pivotal. A pragmatic agile practitioner steeped in Scrum, Lean and XP, he combines technical depth with people leadership to scale teams and systems in fast-moving environments. His open-source work includes improving authentication flows in the Apache Usergrid SDK, reflecting an attention to security and cross-language system integration. Educated in business intelligence and leadership (Master’s and Harvard Business School Online), he blends data-driven decision making with engineering craftsmanship.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Centro de Ensino Superior de Juiz de ForaLeadership Principles course., Leadership Principles course. at Harvard Business School OnlineMaster in Business Intelligence, Master in Business Intelligence at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (16)
api-rest10
rest-api10
user-authentication10
authentication10
authorizations10
oauth10
authorization10
restful-api10
api-design10
ruby10
rspec8
javas8
java8
android6
strongloop6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/usergrid
Apr 2013 - May 2013
Mirror of Apache Usergrid
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily focused on enhancing the authentication and authorization capabilities of the Apache Usergrid Ruby SDK. Their contributions included implementing support for the `client_credentials` grant type, which allows applications to authenticate using client IDs and secrets. They also refactored the code to pass client credentials as parameters, and addressed a bug related to the `Authorization` header in the client credentials flow. The changes extended to the Java side, demonstrating a solid understanding of the system architecture.
javaapacheusergrid
apihub/homebrew-apihub
Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 11 pushes in 10 months
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