Summary
Fernando Almeida is an experienced backend developer and entrepreneur with over 25 years in software engineering and two decades specializing in PHP, currently serving as CEO of cloudid. He has led technical teams and product development across startups and enterprises, including CTO and senior engineering roles at Frutys, Safeticket, CredPago and MANYminds, blending hands-on coding with strategic leadership. His stack spans PHP (CodeIgniter, Laravel), modern frameworks (Flutter, Vue), databases from MariaDB/SQL Server to MongoDB, and DevOps practices like Docker, CI/CD and Git Flow. Comfortable with multiple languages (Delphi/Object Pascal, Lua, JavaScript, Dart, C#), he routinely tackles legacy systems and migrations as well as new feature delivery. Based in Bahia, Brazil, he brings a practical electronics/communications technician background to systems thinking and operational reliability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs deep backend expertise with founder-level ownership.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Técnico, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at EEEMBA