João Hornburg
Senior Software Engineer at Spark Shipping
Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Top SchoolJoão Hornburg is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building pragmatic, product-focused software across startups and scale-ups, currently driving engineering at Spark Shipping from Santa Catarina, Brazil. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, agile and lean delivery (Kanban/forecasting), and has deep roots in digital and interactive TV systems and embedded Java from earlier R&D work. João blends hands-on coding with middle-management and tech lead experience—having served as Scrum Master and Engineering Team Lead—so he’s comfortable both shipping features and shaping delivery practices. He’s passionate about privacy and data protection, which informs his approach to designing maintainable, compliant systems. An appetite for inbound marketing and lean startup principles helps him align engineering outcomes with measurable business growth.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
English, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (29)
api9
workspace8
station8
ruby7
activemodel7
sanitization6
jmock6
lua6
refer6
mocking6
javame6
bdd6
java6
unit-testing6
ios6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joaohornburg/inpi_scraper
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 27 days
joaohornburg/referrals
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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