Francisco Soares
Founding Engineer & Lead Mobile Developer at Zed Financial, Inc.
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancisco Soares is a founding engineer and lead mobile developer at Zed Financial with a decade of engineering experience spanning iOS (Swift, Objective-C, Objective-C++), backend services (Node.js, Python) and recent work in Rust. He combines startup leadership with hands-on implementation, having shipped mobile products, freelanced through Toptal, and interned at Facebook. Fluent across the full stack, he favors pragmatic, dependency-light solutions—evidenced by algorithm implementations in C and Rust contributed to a cross-language algorithms repo. Based in São Paulo, he brings formal training in computer engineering from UFPE and full‑stack certification from freeCodeCamp, pairing academic grounding with practical, production-focused craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampEnsino Fundamental - Ensino Médio, Ensino Fundamental - Ensino Médio at Colégio Santa Emília, MIC EtepamBacharelado, Engenharia de Computação, Bacharelado, Engenharia de Computação at UFPE
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (28)
gridfs10
dijkstra10
adfs10
c1110
data-structure10
webhdfs10
c1710
go10
rdfs10
data-structures10
bfs-search10
rust10
javascript9
algorithm9
algorithms9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ZoranPandovski/al-go-rithms
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
:musical_note: Algorithms written in different programming languages - https://zoranpandovski.github.io/al-go-rithms/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Francisco primarily contributed algorithms to the repository, writing implementations for Breadth-First Search (BFS), Depth-First Search (DFS), and Dijkstra's algorithm. These implementations span across different programming languages including C and Rust. They are also focused on implementing solutions without external libraries and including testing to make sure the implementations are correct.
pythoncomputer-scienceprogramming-languagejavascriptalgorithms-and-data-structures
forbidden404/Coding-Challenges
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:90 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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