Fernando Bandeira
Co-Founder at Goodworld
Greater Florianopolis Brazil
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Top SchoolFernando Bandeira is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building high-throughput payments platforms and developer-friendly infrastructure. As Co-Founder and former VP of Engineering at Alternative Payments, he hands-on built the MVP in six months and helped scale the product to over $1B annual processing volume while raising $22M in funding. He combines deep backend expertise—contributions to Laravel core and its database/collection layers—with front-end and TypeScript work on projects like react-page, reflecting full-stack fluency. Fernando has led SOC 2 and PCI-compliant platform engineering, applied Domain-Driven Design and Team Topologies to reduce cognitive load, and grown cross-functional teams to 15 people. Based in Greater Florianópolis, Brazil, he also contributes localization improvements for pt-BR in widely used Laravel language packs, highlighting attention to global developer experience and product usability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Systems Analysis and Development, Bachelor of Science - BS, Systems Analysis and Development at IFRSNanodegree, Artificial Intelligence, NLP Specialization, Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence, NLP Specialization at UdacityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
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Github Skills (41)
editors10
javascript10
strings10
rails-i18n10
translation10
validations10
laravel-mix10
testing10
text-manipulation10
databases10
typescript10
abstraction-layer10
laravel10
editor10
validation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
react-page/react-page
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Next-gen, highly customizable content editor for the browser - based on React and written in TypeScript. WYSIWYG on steroids.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 29 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily focused on improving the "react-page" content editor, a React and TypeScript-based WYSIWYG editor. Their contributions included fixing TypeScript test issues and modifying several plugins related to content rendering and UI components, specifically within the slate, ui and core packages. Furthermore, the user was involved in refactoring packages, renaming project components and updating deployment scripts.
contenteditablereactbrowserwysiwyghighly-customizable
laravel/framework
May 2016 - Jul 2017
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 43 PRs, 337 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the Laravel framework by addressing issues related to database interactions and the `Collection` class. Their work includes fixing SQL Server grammar for database queries, modifying the `mapWithKeys` method in the `Collection` class and adding new features related to the database query builder. Additionally, they made improvements to testing frameworks, specifically adding new test cases. Furthermore, the user was responsible for updating the framework.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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