Iago Prates
Senior Backend Engineer at The Weather Company
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolIago Prates is a senior backend engineer with over a decade of software experience and more than eight years focused on building scalable, maintainable end-to-end systems using Node.js, Express, MongoDB and modern front-end tools like React and Redux. He has delivered high-impact solutions across industries—ecommerce, fintech, retail, and consulting—leading migrations to microservices on AWS that improved efficiency and reduced incidents. At companies from Pampered Chef to Bright Data he revived legacy systems, improved developer workflows with linting and git hooks, and built user-facing products that increased conversion and customer satisfaction. As an interview engineer at Karat he’s evaluated hundreds of candidates, boosting hiring efficiency while staying hands-on with code and architecture. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he combines a pragmatic product focus with mentorship experience from running study groups and hiring panels, making him as effective in team-building as in technical rescue missions. A detail that often surprises peers: he’s repeatedly shipped from-scratch commerce platforms that scaled to seven-figure revenue within months.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Hack ReactorMarista de BrasíliaIncomplete Bachelor Computer Engineering, Incomplete Bachelor Computer Engineering at Universidade de Brasília
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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98answers
18questions
javascript
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Github Skills (107)
bash10
visual-studio10
nvm10
mongoose10
editor10
shell10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
lts10
posix10
vscode10
nodejs10
mongodb10
zsh10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
iagowp/micToSong
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:45 commits in 14 days
iagowp/gshow_blocker
Jan 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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