Marcus Sá is a seasoned full-stack engineering leader with 15 years of experience, currently heading product and technology at Vakinha, Brazil's largest crowdfunding platform. He combines deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript and Ruby on Rails with modern front-end frameworks like React and Next.js, plus backend experience in Node, Express and PHP. As a former tech lead and long-term contributor to integrations that marry Rails and React, he brings practical knowledge of server-side rendering, performance tuning and frontend architecture. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, he pairs product-focused decision making with day-to-day engineering leadership, guiding teams from prototyping to production. Marcus is also investing in data and AI skills through postgraduate studies, signaling a move to more data-driven product strategy. Colleagues know him for balancing pragmatic engineering fixes (linting, propTypes, render optimizations) with strategic platform thinking.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA em Tecnologia para Negócios: AI, Data Science e Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, MBA em Tecnologia para Negócios: AI, Data Science e Big Data, Artificial Intelligence at PUC-RS
Example of integration of Rails, react, redux, using the react_on_rails gem, webpack, enabling the es7 and jsx transpilers, and node integration. And React Native! Live Demo:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 26 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Marcus focused on improving the React front-end components within the Rails application. They addressed linting issues, converted React callback bindings to use `_.bindAll`, and removed unnecessary bindings. The user also fixed a warning related to a required propType and introduced a pure render decorator for performance optimization. Additionally, the user updated the application to use the latest version of react-router and also modified server-side code related to comment ordering.
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Marcus Sá - Head De Produto E Tecnologia at Vakinha