Henrique Bastos
Distinguished Software Engineer at Routable
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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RockstarHenrique Bastos is a Distinguished Software Engineer based in Rio de Janeiro with 17 years of experience building scalable systems, mentoring engineers, and bridging product and engineering to deliver complex payments, tax, and compliance solutions. A long-time Python and Django advocate, he founded HBNetwork where he trained over 10,000 developers and led creation of extensive free courseware that helped grow Brazil’s developer ecosystem. He is a Fellow of both the Python Software Foundation and Django Software Foundation, recognized for community-building, open-source contributions, and creating Brazil’s first widespread Django course in Portuguese. At Routable he architects reusable, cross-team solutions and has been repeatedly awarded for enabling fast, reliable delivery of critical infrastructure like cross-border payments. An active OSS maintainer, his hands-on work includes maintaining and modernizing popular tooling such as model_mommy/model_bakery and python-decouple—practical contributions that smooth testing and configuration for Django projects. Colleagues describe him as a technical coach who combines deep implementation skills with a product-first, people-centric approach.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
datetime10
csv-parse10
python10
django10
testing10
environment-variables10
datetimes10
configuration-file10
csv-parsing10
pytest9
packing9
packaging9
package9
documentation8
pip6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HBNetwork/python-decouple
Feb 2014 - May 2022
Strict separation of config from code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 7 reviews, 96 commits in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Henrique primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `python-decouple` library. Their work included updating the `README.rst` file, fixing boolean conversion issues, adding a Csv helper, modifying `setup.py` and addressing whitespace issues. Furthermore, they enhanced the library by implementing features and fixing issues related to environment variable handling and providing clearer explanations.
environment-variablespythonconfigurationconfiguration-filesconfig
berinhard/model_mommy
Dec 2012 - Jan 2015
No longer maintained, please migrate to model_bakery
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 1 PR in 2 years
Contributions summary:Henrique primarily focused on maintaining and refactoring the `model_mommy` library, a Django testing tool. Their contributions involved updating the codebase to support newer Django versions, specifically addressing timezone-aware datetime handling. This included implementing and refactoring code to utilize helper functions for datetime management, as well as modifying test configurations and dependencies. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the packaging and build process of the library.
bakerymigrate
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