Georges Ribeiro
Software Engineer at SimplyInsured
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorges Ribeiro is a seasoned software engineer based in São Paulo with 12 years of experience building backend systems and leading engineering teams across media, enterprise, and energy sectors. He has held lead roles at organizations like BBC, Natura and Accenture and currently develops reliable software at SimplyInsured. Georges contributed to The Guardian’s image management backend—refactoring processors, adding metadata stores and improving performance—which reflects his knack for pragmatic improvements in large, production systems. He pairs a strong academic foundation (Master’s in Software Engineering, BS in Mathematics) with hands-on expertise in architecting and optimizing backend services. As a former adjunct professor and IT manager, he brings both mentorship and operational discipline to engineering teams. Colleagues would describe him as a developer who enjoys breaking and fixing systems until they run cleaner and faster.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Instituto de Pesquisas TecnológicasUniversity of São Paulo
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
backend10
back-end-development10
scala10
image-processing9
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/grid
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
The Guardian’s image management system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 37 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Georges primarily focused on improving the image management system's backend functionality. Their contributions involved refactoring code to utilize module configurations for the ImageProcessor, bringing in a new BBC MetadataStore and creating the necessary processor for it, and introducing a file type search feature. The user's work also included the modification of the image loader configuration and implementing actorSystem on loadImageProcessor for improved performance.
management-systemproductionguardianimage-management
gribeiro/gribeiro.github.io
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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