Gabriel Baldão
Senior Software Engineer at Intuit
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolGabriel Baldão is a Senior Software Engineer and tech lead with 8 years of experience building backend systems in Ruby on Rails and Go, currently applying his expertise at Intuit after roles at GoCo and enjoei. He designs and implements scalable GraphQL and REST APIs and architects cloud-native features using AWS services like Kinesis, Lambda (including Edge), SQS, S3 and OpenSearch. Comfortable shipping production-ready systems, he pairs strong testing and data-handling practices with team leadership—mentoring engineers and owning feature architecture from design to delivery. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved backend exports and authorization policies in nonprofit-focused Ruby projects such as rubyforgood/human-essentials and CASA, reflecting a bias toward impactful, community-minded software. Based in São Paulo with a Computer Engineering background, he blends embedded-systems roots with modern backend and distributed systems experience.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer Computer Engineering, Computer Engineer Computer Engineering at Instituto Federal de educação Ciencia e tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais, Campus Poços de CaldasTécnico em contabilidade, Técnico em contabilidade at Escola Municipal Dr. José Januário de Magalhães
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (15)
pundit10
access-control10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
databases10
csv10
rails10
database-api10
csvhelper10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
database10
ruby10
open-source7
nom6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/casa
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily refactored and updated policy specifications within the Rails application, focusing on access control rules for different user roles (admin, supervisor, volunteer). They updated existing policy files, and removed duplicate methods to improve maintainability. Additionally, they modified the policies and scopes to ensure data security.
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rubyforgood/human-essentials
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Human Essentials is an inventory management system for diaper, incontinence, and period-supply banks. It supports them in distributing to partners, tracking inventory, and reporting stats and analytics.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the application by adding features related to exporting data to CSV files. They implemented CSV export functionality for families and children, modifying controllers and views to incorporate export buttons and CSV generation logic. This involved working with Ruby on Rails, database interactions to retrieve data, and CSV generation libraries to format the output. The user also made a minor fix to a link in the organization dashboard.
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