Daniel Brasil is a software developer with six years of experience building full-stack web systems and integrations from Paraná, Brazil. He works at Codeminer42 delivering frontend and backend solutions—React/Vue and TypeScript on the client side, and Ruby on Rails, Node.js and PostgreSQL on the server—while also consulting across domains. Daniel has contributed to well-known open-source projects like Mastodon and Forem, improving backend CLIs, account management, and API behavior, demonstrating solid Rails and CLI tooling skills. He has hands-on experience building AI-driven voice agents and real-time telephony integrations using Twilio and custom Python services, plus commerce payments flows with Stripe Connect. Comfortable modernizing legacy stacks, he has migrated Rails apps into a Nest.js/Prisma monolith and worked with Elasticsearch for search scalability. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he blends production-grade bug fixes and tests with feature work that improves developer-facing tools and user-facing workflows.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação at Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the Forem platform. Their work included adding support for organization IDs in API routes, which involved modifying controller logic, and implementing corresponding tests. They also contributed to improving the organization slug validator, and removing de-indexing from accounts with no comments. The user demonstrates proficiency in Ruby on Rails, as evidenced by their work in the Rails-based Forem codebase.
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:26 reviews, 81 PRs, 50 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the `tootctl` command-line interface for the Mastodon project, adding features for account management such as creating, modifying, and approving accounts. The user fixed bugs related to email confirmation and user approval, and also added tests for the `SettingsCLI` and `IpBlocksCLI`. The user also implemented the ability to block sign-ups from specific IPs.
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