Kivanio Barbosa is a seasoned software and SRE engineer with 18 years of experience who co-founded and leads CTO functions at fintechs focused on Open Banking. He combines deep, long-term Ruby on Rails expertise (maintaining RoR apps since its early days) with hands-on cloud, infrastructure and SRE skills across AWS, Heroku, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform. Kivanio has built and scaled SaaS products, payment systems and billing libraries for Brazilian banks, and his open-source contributions include significant backend work on RefineryCMS and the brcobranca billing library. Comfortable leading remote teams, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with practical ops know-how, having restructured IT for organizations and run engineering at startups. An avid remote worker and traveler, he’s also exploring Web3 and Solidity while keeping a strong focus on customer-facing fintech reliability.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Pos-Graduation Analysis Systems CMMI PMBOK, Pos-Graduation Analysis Systems CMMI PMBOK at Universidade Federal de Lavras
Pos-Graduation innovation systems Diffusion of innovation Business, Pos-Graduation innovation systems Diffusion of innovation Business at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 474 commits in 14 years
Contributions summary:Kivanio primarily contributed to the `brcobranca` repository, which focuses on generating billing slips for Brazilian banks. The user's commits reveal modifications to the core functionality of the library, specifically addressing the creation of billing slips for banks. This involved adapting code to support features and format specifics for different banks such as adjustments to the code for the HSBC.
An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.0+
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:38 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kivanio primarily contributed to the backend logic and Rails framework of the Refinery CMS. Their work included refactoring and upgrading existing code, such as migrating features and database columns. The user also added translations and ensured compatibility with dependencies. They also added functionalities like home page configuration and site name settings.
ruby-on-railscmsrails-cmsrailsrefinery-cms
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.