Mateus Cruz
Software Developer Senior Specialist at Nasdaq
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMateus Cruz is a senior software developer with 11 years of engineering experience and a strong track record building scalable Ruby on Rails systems and modern front-ends with Vue/React. Currently at Nasdaq, he drives architecture, performance and tooling for trading platforms—rewriting background job systems and authoring a gem for SQL-level primary/replica connection switching to unblock high-frequency traffic. He has led tech teams and mentoring initiatives across startups and enterprises, introduced SOLID/DRY and test-oriented culture to improve delivery, and designed cloud architectures on AWS/GCP/Azure. Comfortable spanning backend, frontend and infra, Mateus combines pragmatic engineering with a penchant for performance optimization and knowledge transfer. An international background including study at University of Toronto and experience across diverse stacks gives him a practical, systems-minded approach to complex product challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at PUC MinasExchange Program Computer Science, Exchange Program Computer Science at University of Toronto Mississauga
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (72)
parser10
instagram10
uploader10
mvc10
ruby10
commonmark10
encoding10
activerecord10
resumable10
ruby-on-rails10
markdown10
tus10
html10
rails10
modular9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Nasdaq/active_record_proxy_adapters
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 reviews, 48 PRs, 241 pushes in 4 months
mateuscruz/dns_api
Nov 2018 - Mar 2025
A simple API for storing DNSs and their hostnames.
Contributions:49 reviews, 47 PRs, 85 pushes in 6 years 4 months
apidnsstoringsimple-apihostnames
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