Neil Carvalho
Developer at thoughtbot
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolNeil Carvalho is a pragmatic full-stack developer with 13 years of experience focused on helping Brazilian businesses simplify bureaucracy and reach global markets. He brings deep Ruby on Rails expertise from a decade building cloud management systems for startups, complemented by recent work sharpening front-end skills with React. Neil has production experience in SaaS payroll and workforce platforms and contributed to the open-source brcobranca project, fixing bank-specific boleto calculations and adding real-world features like guarantor and payer address support. Comfortable with SQL and Docker, he picks the right tool for the job rather than favoring a single stack. Based in São Paulo, he combines hands-on engineering with domain knowledge of Brazilian fiscal systems that most international engineers lack.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Technologist, Medical informatics, Technologist, Medical informatics at Alagoas State University of Health SciencesCentro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Alagoas
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Github Skills (2)
ruby10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kivanio/brcobranca
Jun 2013 - Feb 2015
Emissão de bloquetos de cobrança para bancos brasileiros
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to improving the `brcobranca` project, focused on generating Brazilian bank payment slips (boletos). Their work involved fixing bugs related to Santander bank integration, including correcting the calculation of the check digit ("DV") and adapting the codebase to the bank's specific layout requirements. Furthermore, the user enhanced the system by adding the option to include an avalista (guarantor) and the cedente's (payer's) address on the boleto.
boletosimplesboletos-registradosremessabrasileirosbancos
neilvcarvalho/rails
Jan 2022 - Sep 2024
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:14 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 8 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
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