Nando Vieira
Senior Software Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolNando Vieira is a Senior Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently shaping developer-facing systems at the Stellar Development Foundation from Vancouver. He brings deep Ruby/Rails and JavaScript expertise (including React) honed at Heroku and Salesforce, and a track record of practical open-source contributions such as i18n-js and browser detection tools that improve internationalization and client compatibility. As a former founder and longtime backend engineer, he combines product instincts with careful serialization and API integration work (notably for PagSeguro’s Ruby SDK). Colleague-friendly and pragmatic, he balances large-scale system thinking with hands-on fixes and build/test improvements, and outside of work he’s a punk-rocking, guitar-playing family man who brings curiosity and resilience to technical problem solving.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at Uninove - Universidade Nove de Julho
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Github Skills (31)
apim10
javascript10
user-agent10
i18n-node10
testing10
rails10
data-serialization10
serialization10
ruby10
api10
parsing10
i18n-js10
i18next10
browser-detection10
ruby-on-rails10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
fnando/browser
Jul 2010 - Jan 2022
Do some browser detection with Ruby. Includes ActionController integration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 454 commits, 271 PRs in 11 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nando contributed extensively to browser detection functionality in Ruby, enhancing the project with new features. They implemented detection for various browsers like Safari, and also added support for mobile browsers. These contributions involved modifying test files to incorporate new browser user agents and updating the core library to include browser-specific logic. Moreover, they focused on expanding the project's capabilities by adding support for new features.
browserrailsbrowser-detectionrubyuser-agent
fnando/i18n-js
Sep 2009 - Dec 2022
It's a small library to provide the I18n translations on the Javascript. It comes with Rails support.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 246 commits, 59 PRs in 13 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nando primarily contributed to the i18n-js library by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and improving the overall functionality. They added support for exporting files with MD5 digests, introduced a `check` command for verifying translations, and integrated the ability to parse configuration files as ERB. Furthermore, the user enhanced the library by incorporating features like the ability to watch multiple directories and receive custom options and added options for customizing the export process. They also made improvements to the build and test processes.
translationsrailstranslationjavascriptinternationalization
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