Summary
Lucas Chagas is a software developer with 10 years of experience, specializing in Ruby on Rails and building secure, scalable APIs for fintech, rural credit and sports-tech. He has a track record of measurable impact—optimizing critical endpoints to cut latency from ~800ms to ~300ms, introducing Sidekiq/Redis for resilient batch processing, and creating internal gems that accelerated sprint delivery by ~25%. Comfortable across Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis and Heroku, he combines pragmatic DevOps with automated testing to reduce regressions and enable frequent, stable releases. Based in Greater Brasília, he blends disciplined engineering with a product focus, turning well-architected code into business outcomes. Motivated by Grace Hopper’s “do it and apologize” ethos, he favors experimentation and practical solutions that move teams forward.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação at Universidade de Brasília
Portuguese, English, Spanish