Igor Da Silva
Software Engineering Manager at Housecall Pro
Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
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Top SchoolIgor Da Silva is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 12 years of hands-on experience and over five years in leadership roles, currently leading the Lead Sourcing team at HouseCall Pro from Brazil. He began as a Ruby on Rails developer and still blends design and code review with coaching, hiring, and career-ladder design to help engineers reach their potential. At Magnetis he scaled teams, created engineering ladders and growth plans, kept near-zero turnover, and played a key role in the company’s acquisition by BTG. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the popular ffaker library with Brazilian-specific generators, showing attention to localization and test quality. He combines product-aligned execution with a talent-first management style and a track record of improving hiring, retention, and delivery accuracy.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Federal University of Rio Grande do NorteHigh School Information Technology, High School Information Technology at IFRN
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
strings10
testing10
text-manipulation10
validation10
ruby10
test-unit10
unit-test10
api-design9
api9
regular-expression9
ruby-on-rails9
ace-editor6
github-api6
belongsto6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ffaker/ffaker
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Faker refactored.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Igor primarily focused on enhancing the `ffaker` library by adding Brazilian-specific generators. They implemented generators for gender, identification (CPF, RG, and gender), and job titles. These generators included integrating male and female prefixes and names and adjusting time generation. Further changes included test refactoring and updating regex to validate.
testingrefactoredfaker
coopera/that-s-the-way-you-do-it
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:29 PRs, 95 pushes, 26 branches in 6 months
cookbookslinkschef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
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