Filipe Costa
Software Engineer at Consultant
Ceará, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolFilipe Costa is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of professional experience and a 7+ year focus on backend Ruby/Rails systems, currently building payments and platform features at Tremendous after shipping regional payment methods at Stripe. He blends deep Rails expertise with experience across JVM languages, JavaScript ecosystems, Rust, Elixir and emerging Crystal work, and has contributed meaningful fixes and 3D Secure support to the widely-used Active Merchant payments library. A seasoned consultant and former engineering manager, Filipe pairs hands-on coding with product-minded integrations for clients and teams across Latin America. Based in Ceará, Brazil, he invests energy in the developer community—organizing a local Ruby meetup and supporting remote meetups—bringing practical mentorship and a collaborative approach to every project.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Graduation, Computer Science, Graduation, Computer Science at Federal University of Ceara
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (13)
3d-secure10
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
authorizenet10
braintree10
authorization10
ruby10
testing9
capistrano6
homebrew6
macos6
mysql6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 25 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily contributed to enhancing payment gateway integrations within the Active Merchant library, specifically focusing on 3D Secure capabilities. They implemented support for 3D Secure pass-through parameters for Braintree and added flexibility for Authorize.net's 3D Secure parameters. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to Maestro card validation and updated the project to use SHIPTONAME for Payflow Express. These updates involved modifying existing gateway files and adding new test cases.
activemerchantrubyshopify
filipebarcos/filipebarcos.github.io
Jul 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 3 branches, 4 issues in 4 years 1 month
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