Felipe Machado
Co-founder And CTO at SmarttBot
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Machado is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder/CTO with 12 years of experience building fintech products that democratize investing in Brazil. Based in Minas Gerais, he has led SmarttBot from inception to a market-focused platform for automated stock trading, combining product vision with hands-on engineering. His background blends academic research (MSc in Computer Science from UFMG and an INRIA internship) with practical senior development roles at Samba Tech and Bússola do Investidor. Felipe contributes to open-source, improving core Node.js libraries like node-pool with performance and validation enhancements, reflecting attention to robust backend infrastructure. He excels at turning research-grade ideas into scalable production systems that empower retail traders. Colleagues describe him as a technically curious leader who favors pragmatic, test-driven improvements that make automation safer and more accessible.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
asynchronous10
nodejs10
javascript10
async10
testing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
coopernurse/node-pool
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Generic resource pooling for node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 21 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `node-pool` library, focusing on improvements to the resource pooling logic. Their work included refactoring the `doWhileAsync` function for better efficiency, and enhancing the validation mechanism. Furthermore, the user added functionality to support asynchronous validation and improved the test suite by removing trailing spaces in the test files.
node-jspoolingnodejsgeneric
felipou/hashtool
May 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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