Newton Garcia
Lead Software Engineer at The Action Network
Goiás, Brazil
Summary
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SeniorNewton Garcia is a lead software engineer with 11–15 years of hands-on experience designing and operating production SaaS systems, specializing in backend architectures, GraphQL APIs, and data-intensive platforms. He has led end-to-end development of AI-driven conversational and voice-assistant systems for healthcare, building real-time speech-to-text/LLM/text-to-speech pipelines and workflow orchestration used in live clinics. At scale he’s driven reliability and performance for high-traffic SaaS and e-commerce products (Action Network, Envato, ReferralCandy), focusing on uptime, data integrity, and observability. A pragmatic engineer who enjoys owning problems from spec to production, he’s fluent in Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL and AWS while also integrating Python and AI/ML tooling. Newton contributes to the graphql-ruby project, adding resolver and schema fixes that reflect his deep familiarity with GraphQL internals. Based in Goiás, Brazil, he combines startup founder grit with enterprise-grade engineering discipline to ship measurable product outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
graphql10
graphql-ruby10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
ruby10
schema-design9
rspec9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rmosolgo/graphql-ruby
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
Ruby implementation of GraphQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Newton primarily contributed to the back-end of the GraphQL Ruby implementation. Their commits focused on adding support for lookahead arguments in Relay Classic Mutations, enhancing testing related to field extras, and fixing schema/subscription issues. They also made changes to the resolver and field classes, ensuring correct functionality and handling of inputs.
graphqlrubyrelayrailsgraphql-ruby
newx/newx
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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