Eder Soares
CTO at Portábilis
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Top SchoolEder Soares is a CTO and software engineer with 10 years of experience building web platforms and leading technical innovation at Portábilis, where he drives the development of i-Educar, the largest open-source education software in Brazil. He combines hands-on backend work—recently contributing Laravel upgrades, maintenance mode, and pagination improvements—to scalable product stewardship and community-led open source governance. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, he progressed from full-stack roles to tech lead and head of technology before assuming the CTO role, showing steady growth in technical and organizational leadership. His background in computer science and a postgraduate specialization in software engineering support a pragmatic approach to architecture and delivery. Passionate about public-impact software, he focuses on leveraging open source to amplify the social outcomes of education policy. Colleagues describe him as a practical innovator who bridges developer ergonomics, maintainability, and measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel Ciência da Computação, Bacharel Ciência da Computação at ULBRABacharel Ciências da Computação, Bacharel Ciências da Computação at Unijuí - Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do SulPós-graduação Lato Sensu - Especialização Engenharia de Software, Pós-graduação Lato Sensu - Especialização Engenharia de Software at Anhanguera Educacional
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (13)
database-migrations10
php10
database-migration10
laravel10
back-end-development10
laravel-mix10
phpunit8
git6
htaccess6
authentication6
exceptions6
docker6
docker-compose6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
portabilis/i-educar
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Lançando o maior software livre de educação do Brasil!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 releases, 53 reviews, 4584 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Eder's commits primarily focused on modifying database seeders by namespacing them. Additionally, the user updated the codebase to support maintenance mode and implemented pagination for improved user experience. Furthermore, there were changes related to the Laravel framework upgrade to version 8, which included updates to the HTTP kernel and other configuration files.
livrephplansoftware-publicolaravel
portabilis/wp-site-portabilis
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
Site Portabilis
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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