Dickson Guedes
Database Specialist
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolDickson Guedes is a seasoned Database Specialist with over 20 years of experience designing, tuning and automating data platforms, primarily using PostgreSQL alongside Neo4J, Redis and Elasticsearch. He pairs deep operational expertise—installation, replication, monitoring and performance tuning—with software craftsmanship in Python, Ruby, Rust and scripting to build ETL, automation and testing tools. An active community contributor and organizer (DBFloripa Meetup; long-time PostgreSQL volunteer and conference organizer), he also contributed backend improvements to the widely used Elixir codebase around string/atom handling. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, Dickson blends networking and systems background with a pragmatic developer mindset, teaching and presenting regularly to share hard-won production lessons.
20 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree, Mathematics and Computer Science at UdacityBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
961reputation
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6answers
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switch-statement
top-5%
elixir
top-5%
Github Skills (17)
strings10
elixir10
utf10
text-manipulation10
exunit9
switch-statement9
unit-testing9
functional-programming9
test-unit9
rake6
data-mapper6
ruby-on-rails6
connection-pooling6
audit6
ruby6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-lang/elixir
Apr 2012 - Jan 2013
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dickson primarily contributed to the Elixir codebase by adding and modifying functions related to atom-to-binary and binary-to-atom conversions, with UTF-8 as the default encoding. They implemented `atom_to_binary` and made corresponding test cases. Further contributions included code refactoring to leverage the default UTF-8 encoding and the addition of string manipulation functions such as `upcase`, `downcase`, `rstrip`, `lstrip`, `strip`, and `codepoints`.
functional-languagescalablefunctional-programmingelixircompiler
guedes/faker_fdw
Jan 2016 - May 2021
Because, sometimes, your Elephant must lie
Contributions:4 releases, 37 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 5 months
lieelephantdummy-datafaker
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