Italo Matos
Principal Engineer at Blu
Ceará, Brazil
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Top SchoolItalo Matos is a Principal Engineer with 17+ years building scalable web and mobile systems, currently leading architecture and delivery at Blu. He brings deep Ruby on Rails, Postgres, microservices, Kafka and AWS expertise, grounded in a career that spans ERP, telecom integrations (Tim, Oi, Claro) and e-commerce platform optimization. A serial founder and former CTO, he pairs hands-on engineering with product and team leadership—having launched multiple startups and led small, high-impact agile teams. His open-source contributions include backend refactors and tests for notable Ruby for Good projects like human-essentials and CASA, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and maintainability. With a master’s in software engineering and a postgraduate in digital marketing, he blends technical depth with conversion-driven marketing insight applied to his own e-commerce work.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Post graduation degree, Marketing/Marketing Management, General, Post graduation degree, Marketing/Marketing Management, General at UdacityTechnician, Technician at E-genial Soluções InteligentesTechnician, Technician at ActiveBrasilTechnician, Technician at Active BrasilTechnician, Technician at Udemy AcademyMaster, Master at Universidade de Fortaleza
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
manager10
rspec10
open-source10
rails10
casa10
ruby10
manage10
management10
activerecord9
ui-design8
postgresql8
nom7
jquery6
javascript6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/casa
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 21 commits, 17 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Italo made several contributions focused on improving the volunteer management system for CASA. They fixed a bug related to "transition aged youth" (TAY) cases, added validations for language names, and refactored various UI elements, including the duties and case court reports pages. They also implemented system tests for languages and CASA org changes, enhancing the application's reliability and user experience.
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rubyforgood/human-essentials
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Human Essentials is an inventory management system for diaper, incontinence, and period-supply banks. It supports them in distributing to partners, tracking inventory, and reporting stats and analytics.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Italo primarily contributed to the back-end of the `human-essentials` project, focusing on bug fixes and refactoring within the Rails framework. They addressed issues in seed files and made adjustments to the triage process. A significant portion of their work involved a refactoring of a partner user invite service, moving logic to the model and implementing testing. The user also replaced old partner text and added partner name to individual distribution view.
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