Arthur Neves
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Florida, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolArthur Neves is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems, developer platforms, and AI-enabled tooling from Florida. He helped bring Vitess into production at GitHub to solve massive MySQL scaling challenges and led cross-functional teams integrating CodeQL, Dependabot, and other Advanced Security products. Deeply experienced in Ruby on Rails and databases, Arthur is a prolific open-source contributor with significant commits to Rails and projects like Sprockets, Bundler, and Vitess that reflect both core framework and infrastructure expertise. He combines hands-on engineering (from migration scripts and devops automation to testing frameworks) with product-led decisions such as designing a unified billing model for security offerings. Known for improving developer experience and reliability, he also has a pattern of surfacing pragmatic tooling (Docker Compose clusters, fixture frameworks) that make complex systems easier to operate. Colleagues rely on him for tackling hard operational problems and translating them into maintainable platform solutions.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Faculdade de Engenharia IndustrialColegio Singular
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
12,010reputation
1.9mreached
223answers
52questions
ruby
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
proxy
top-5%
activerecord
top-5%
java
top-5%
rspec
top-5%
Github Skills (85)
dependency-management10
package-management10
testing10
rspec10
databases10
ruby10
file-upload10
activerecord10
object-cache10
ruby-on-rails10
app-framework10
dockers10
api10
github-api10
computer-engineering10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
basecamp/marginalia
Dec 2013 - Jan 2021
Attach comments to ActiveRecord's SQL queries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 28 PRs, 48 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the marginalia gem. They addressed issues related to database query annotations, including handling binary characters in MySQL queries and ensuring correct annotation behavior across different database adapters and Rails versions. The commits demonstrate a focus on testing and refining the gem's integration with various database systems. The user also refactored code for better maintainability.
attachsql-queriesrailssqlruby
arthurnn/memcached
Jan 2014 - Apr 2022
A Ruby interface to the libmemcached C client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:237 commits, 17 PRs, 82 pushes in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily contributed to the Ruby interface for the libmemcached C client. Their work focused on modifying the `rails.rb` and unit test files to handle `delete` operations, ensuring that the Rails client correctly returns true/false based on success or failure. Additionally, the user added dependencies for benchmarking, fixed compilation warnings, and fixed the relative paths used in the project.
sinatramemcachelibmemcachedcachingruby
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.