Marcus Borges
Senior Software Engineer at SUBSCRIBE
Brazil
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Top SchoolMarcus Borges is a Senior Software Engineer from Brazil with over 10 years of experience building scalable, product-focused systems for fintech and marketplaces. He has a strong track record of turning ambiguous problems into measurable business outcomes—examples include cutting credit analysis time from days to minutes (boosting conversion ~16%), integrating instant payments to reduce costs, and doubling recovery of overdue amounts via credit bureau integrations. Marcus blends backend engineering and systems design with product sensibility, mentoring teams and promoting iterative delivery to validate hypotheses fast. He has hands-on experience across the stack—from Ruby on Rails integrations and ETL pipelines to monitored, cost-aware distributed systems—and contributed to the popular sendgrid-java library by adding dynamic template support for transactional emails. Comfortable in early-stage startups and scaling teams (helped grow engineering from 10 to 50), he pairs pragmatic engineering with customer-centered thinking. He holds a Computer Science degree from Universidade de Brasília and is passionate about building useful products and improving developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade de Brasília
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
sendgrid10
api10
apidoc10
transactional-emails10
java10
sendgrid-mail10
jtest9
object-oriented-programming9
junit9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sendgrid/sendgrid-java
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
The Official Twilio SendGrid Led, Community Driven Java API Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Marcus primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the SendGrid Java library by introducing features related to dynamic template data. They added the `dynamic_template_data` property to the `Personalization` class and subsequently included its generation within test cases, specifically in the `MailTest` class. Further modifications included changing the type parameter of dynamicTemplateData to `Object` and refactoring to improve code clarity. These changes directly impact the ability to integrate dynamic content into transactional emails, enhancing the library's utility.
apitransactional-emailstwilioledemail
Markuus13/poke-api
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:46 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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