Summary
Joao Pontes is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer based in São Paulo with 8 years of hands-on experience building web and mobile products using React, React Native, Next.js, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails and Python. He has shipped multiple production mobile apps to Google Play and TestFlight, improved client web performance by up to 30%, and maintained fintech-grade platforms with high test coverage and reduced crash rates. Comfortable across SQL and NoSQL databases, background job systems (Sidekiq, Celery) and AWS/Docker-powered CI/CD, he also speeds team onboarding by quickly learning new tools and mentoring new hires. Beyond coding, Joao has participated in technical hiring and documentation efforts, demonstrating a strong bias for operational excellence and team growth. Quietly caffeinated, he balances rapid delivery with attention to reliability in startup and fintech contexts.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree (Incomplete), Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree (Incomplete), Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Paulista
Portuguese, English