Summary
Cristiano Mendonça is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently at Intuit after recent senior roles including CTO at Tuto Digital. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript (Backbone/React), with strong testing and CI practices (RSpec/Minitest, Git, Semaphore) and hands-on experience operating services on DigitalOcean, AWS and GCloud. SCRUM Master certified, he combines disciplined self-management and deadline focus with product-minded leadership from founding a SaaS startup to leading engineering teams. Cristiano frequently ships end-to-end solutions—architecture, deployment (Docker/Kubernetes/Dokku/Herokuish) and monitoring—and has deep familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL persistence. Comfortable working remotely or on-site, he brings a track record of taking ideas from MVP to production while coaching teams and improving delivery processes. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he blends entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic engineering discipline that keeps projects shipping reliably.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese, Italian