Felipe Zavan
Lead Software Engineer at Spillover Software Group
Galway, Ireland
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Top SchoolFelipe Zavan is a Lead Software Engineer based in Galway, Ireland, with over a decade of experience designing, building, and operating web-scale applications. He has progressed from hands-on web development and team supervision to leading architecture and delivery at Spillover Software Group, with deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, React/Redux, Java, PostgreSQL and AWS. Felipe is an active open-source contributor—his targeted fixes and refactors in the widely used graphql-ruby project show a knack for improving core library stability and ID/encoding correctness. He combines a disciplined engineering mindset from formal technical training with practical freelance and enterprise experience, often stepping into both code and architecture to solve critical production problems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance maintainability and performance across the full stack.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Analysis, Computer Systems Analysis at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SPHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at ETEC Prof. Aprígio GonzagaTechnical Certificate, Mechatronics, Technical Certificate, Mechatronics at ETEC Martin Luther KingInstituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
back-end-development10
rails10
wpgraphql10
ruby10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
testing8
base64-encoding7
iframe6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
nodejs6
youtube6
youtube-iframe-api6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rmosolgo/graphql-ruby
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Ruby implementation of GraphQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily contributed to the `graphql-ruby` project by fixing issues and improving code quality. They addressed bugs in ActionCable subscription examples, corrected the usage of the `Schema#execute` method and fixed related test. Furthermore, the user refactored ID handling, replacing manual ID manipulation with `object.to_gid_param` and `GlobalID.find`, and optimized Base64 encoding. Their work demonstrates a focus on improving core functionalities and ensuring the project's stability.
relayrailsrubygraphqlgraphql-ruby
Spillover-Software-Group/spree_active_shipping
Apr 2021 - Aug 2024
Spree integration for Shopify's active_shipping gem.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 5 months
shippinggemactive-shippingspreeshopify
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