Alessandro Batista
Senior Software Engineer at Medda Technologies
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Batista is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, based in São Paulo, who specializes in backend systems using Ruby on Rails and Elixir/Phoenix while also contributing to modern front-end stacks like Vue, React and Hotwire. He has led teams and mentored developers as an associate at Codeminer42, ran open-source workshops, and has a track record of upgrading and modernizing production platforms (including Rails and Ruby migrations). As a consultant he built integrations and features across domains—security tooling, payments, booking systems and marketplaces—often shipping APIs, Jira/Atlassian apps, and GraphQL endpoints. An active open-source contributor, he improved and refactored the popular cucumber-ruby project, adding safer diff and header mapping behaviors. Known for technical leadership, critical thinking and hands-on problem solving, he combines a teacher’s patience with pragmatic delivery across diverse stacks and industries.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Specialization, Web Application development, Web Development Specialization, Web Application development at UniGuairacá Centro UniversitárioBachelor in Computer Science, Bachelor in Computer Science at Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
ruby10
cucumber10
testing10
refactoring9
github7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Aug 2013 - Mar 2014
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the `cucumber-ruby` codebase. They introduced and updated warning messages, particularly related to deprecated methods like `map_headers!`, `map_column!`, and `diff!`. The user also refactored and separated the `map_headers` and `map_headers!` methods. They additionally worked on adding the `diff!` method to the `DataTable` class.
cucumberrubypolyglot-releasetidelift
Codeminer42/Punchclock
Dec 2014 - Jan 2023
Contributions:420 reviews, 406 commits, 307 PRs in 8 years 2 months
clockrailsrubyelectronicpunch
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