Joel Oliveira
Senior Engineering Manager at shubox.io
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Oliveira is a Senior Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience leading and scaling web engineering teams, currently at ezCater in the Boston area. He combines hands-on backend expertise in Ruby on Rails with product-minded leadership, having contributed to well-known open-source projects like thoughtbot/administrate and thredded where he improved architecture, performance, and maintainability. A pragmatic builder and founder of shubox.io (S3 Buckets-as-a-Service), he continues to ship technical solutions as an independent consultant while managing teams. Joel’s career spans startups and agencies—from Dribbble and Notarize to thoughtbot—bringing a mix of product, ops, and API-focused engineering judgment. Known for quietly tackling tricky naming, namespacing, and timezone bugs, he excels at simplifying complex legacy codebases and enabling teams to move faster.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at University of Hartford
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Github Skills (16)
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
dashboard10
admin10
database-optimization10
testing10
namespaces9
callback6
keyframe6
heroku6
dnsimple6
sendgrid6
animation6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
thredded/thredded
May 2013 - Feb 2017
The best Rails forums engine ever.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:362 commits, 138 PRs, 398 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily focused on improving the Thredded Rails forum engine, making contributions that enhanced the core functionalities. Their work included removing unnecessary dependencies, optimizing database queries for performance, and refactoring the code to improve the maintainability of the models and controllers. Furthermore, they addressed reported issues by implementing the desired functionality.
railsforumsrails-enginerubymessage-board
thoughtbot/administrate
May 2015 - Nov 2017
A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Administrate Rails engine. Their work included defining and implementing `Administrate::Page` along with related naming conventions. They extracted a resource resolver from the controller, improving the application's architecture and handling of namespaced models. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue in the index view and provided a way to display date(time) objects in the correct timezone.
rails-enginesrubyrailsadmin-dashboard
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