Igor Santos
Senior Web Developer at eHungry
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolIgor Santos is a senior web developer with 15 years of experience building modern PHP and JavaScript applications, currently focused on backend APIs and UX-driven frontends at eHungry. He combines a pragmatic backend discipline—clean, DRY code and API-first design—with hands-on React work to deliver polished user experiences. A longtime Toptal freelancer, he’s shipped projects across startups and enterprise clients and helped migrate legacy stacks to modern PHP and Phalcon/PHP7 environments. Igor is an active open-source contributor, notable for improving Faker’s pt_BR provider with Brazilian document and phone generators and enhancing widely used PHP CLI and testing tooling. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he balances steady full-time work with experimentation on pet projects, bringing practical engineering and localization insight to product teams.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Science, DB, Java, general CS, Bachelor of Information Science, DB, Java, general CS at Centro Universitário da CidadeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Dalhousie UniversityEstácio de Sá University
Portuguese, English, Esperanto
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Github Skills (35)
lib10
laravel-mix10
testing10
databases10
fakerjs10
faker10
laravel10
phpunit10
soap10
eloquent-orm10
php10
localization10
command-line10
modeling10
database10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
laravel-ardent/ardent
Jul 2013 - Oct 2018
Self-validating, secure and smart models for Laravel's Eloquent ORM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 116 commits, 27 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Igor's primary focus was enhancing the Ardent library, a self-validating Eloquent model base for Laravel. Their contributions involved extending Ardent's functionality to support usage outside of the Laravel framework, including configuring database connections and translation services. They refactored the code to improve argument handling and addressed issues related to standalone validator usage. Furthermore, they implemented features for exception handling during validation and added relational features to ease model interaction.
securelaravel-validationlaravel-seloquent-ormphp
fzaninotto/Faker
May 2014 - Oct 2015
Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Igor primarily contributed to the Faker library by enhancing the `pt_BR` (Brazilian Portuguese) provider. Their work involved improving the `Internet` provider's extensibility by modifying code structure. They added Brazilian document generators for CPF, CNPJ, and RG and improved the Brazilian phone number generator to comply with local regulations. These changes show a focus on localizing data generation for the Brazilian market.
factorytestingphpdummy-datafaker
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