Summary
Kelvin Firmino is a Senior Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building web applications and APIs across sectors including fintech, healthcare, media, sports, and artist management. Skilled in Ruby on Rails, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL/PostgreSQL and CI with Git, he has led teams and shipped production systems from government hospital portals to prepaid fintech platforms and sports-data APIs. He combines full-stack craftsmanship—from HTML/CSS front ends to database and queue-driven back ends (Sidekiq, RabbitMQ)—with a strong testing culture using RSpec and Capybara. Now based in Toronto, he pairs hands-on development with team mentoring and process improvements gained from Scrum and Jira workflows. Known for learning quickly and iterating on both code and workflow, he’s focused on growing into a broad full-stack technical leader who turns business rules into reliable, maintainable software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Analysis and System Development, Analysis and System Development at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo
Portuguese, English