Fabio Akita
Co-Founder at Codeminer42
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolFabio Akita is a seasoned software entrepreneur and Ruby on Rails evangelist with over 17 years of professional experience, best known as co-founder of Codeminer42, a lean, developer-centric consulting firm serving clients in Brazil and the USA. He built and scaled distributed, self-organized engineering teams across multiple Brazilian cities and organized Rubyconf Brasil for nearly a decade, growing it to over 1,200 attendees. A hands-on contributor to open-source Rails projects, he’s worked on localization for the popular Spree e-commerce platform and added rich-text and file-upload integrations to RailsAdmin. His background spans SAP enterprise projects to startups, giving him rare perspective on both large-systems integration and nimble product delivery. Outside consulting he launched crypto trading infrastructure through OmniTrade and shares technical insights via his long-running YouTube channel Akitando. Known for solving problems across software, people and companies, he prefers building teams and products to fielding recruitment pitches.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certified, SAP Enterprise Portal Certification, Certified, SAP Enterprise Portal Certification at SAP TrainingBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São PauloPMP, Project Management, PMP, Project Management at Dinsmore Associates
English, Japanese, Portuguese
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Github Skills (24)
ruby-rails10
rails-i18n10
ecommerce10
internationalization10
rails10
ckeditor10
ruby10
localization10
ember-i18n10
solidus10
i18n-js10
spree10
paperclip10
ruby-on-rails10
spreed10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
railsadminteam/rails_admin
Dec 2010 - Jan 2011
RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Fabio contributed to the RailsAdmin project by adding support for CKEditor and Paperclip. They implemented features to integrate CKEditor for rich text editing in textarea fields. Additionally, the user integrated Paperclip for file uploads, including defining database columns and updating configuration. These changes enhance the functionality and user experience of the RailsAdmin interface by providing rich text editing and file upload capabilities.
railsrails-enginerailsadminrubyactivemodel
spree/spree
Aug 2008 - Aug 2009
An open source eCommerce platform giving you full control and customizability. Modular and API-first. Multi-vendor, multi-tenant, multi-store, multi-currency, multi-language. Built using Ruby on Rails. Developed by @vendo-dev
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:6 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Fabio primarily contributed to the localization efforts within the Spree e-commerce platform. Their commits focused on adding and fixing language strings, particularly for Portuguese (pt-BR). They modified various files including views, helpers, and extensions to ensure the platform's user interface and content were correctly translated. This work included updating localization files and adapting UI elements to support multiple languages, enhancing the platform's international accessibility.
multi-sourceecommercemulti-languagespreecommerceshopware
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