Matheus Mina
Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead at PicPay
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolMatheus Mina is a Technical Manager with 13 years of experience building and leading backend-first platform teams across payments, developer experience, and API gateways. He is a pragmatic polyglot with deep expertise in Go, Ruby/Rails and Elixir, and hands-on experience with Kafka, AMQP, Kong, Keycloak and Kubernetes to run resilient distributed systems. At PicPay and Trybe he focused on platform-level concerns—SSO, API edge, BFFs and developer experience—translating operational pain points into robust, reusable services. He’s an active open-source contributor to the Fog Ruby cloud library, improving compute providers and cloud integrations, which reflects his long-standing interest in cloud tooling. A Brazilian dog lover with a CS degree from Universidade Federal de Itajubá, he pairs people leadership with a reputation for pragmatic refactors and reliable, test-focused delivery.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Universidade Federal de ItajubáTechnician in Industrial IT Computer Science, Technician in Industrial IT Computer Science at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (9)
xserver10
xen10
ruby10
cloud-computing9
google-cloud-platform9
openstack8
testing8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fog/fog
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Matheus made several contributions focused on the Fog Ruby cloud services library, specifically within the XenServer and Google Cloud compute providers. Their work involved refactoring methods (e.g., `reboot_server`, `get_consoles`), fixing tests, and merging changes. The user also introduced modifications related to disk and server insertion operations, and addressed inconsistencies in security group rules.
cloud-servicesrubygemstest-kitchenfogruby
mfbmina/enxame
Nov 2023 - Oct 2024
Enxame is an http load tester and benchmarking utility made in Go
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 22 PRs in 11 months
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