Paulo Abreu
Senior Software Developer at Important Calendar
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulo Abreu is a customer-focused Senior Software Developer with 25+ years in web development and 17 years of deep Ruby on Rails expertise, currently based in Lisbon and working remotely. He combines hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial leadership from running ClusterCube for nearly two decades, delivering SaaS and enterprise web apps for banks, retailers and aviation clients. A pragmatic architect who champions The Majestic Monolith and resists premature microservices, he prioritizes software that reliably solves business problems and improves the bottom line. An experienced mentor through Codementor and Arc, Paulo has guided hundreds of career switchers and junior developers and created mentorship programs for organizations like Andela. Active in open source, he maintains contributions to the well-known rails-i18n repository, improving locale tooling and pluralization rules that benefit global Rails apps.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Telecomunication Systems and Electronics, Telecomunication Systems and Electronics at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de LisboaInstituto Politécnico de Lisboa
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (18)
ruby-rails10
translation10
i18n-node10
internationalization10
rails10
ruby10
localization10
i18n-js10
i18next10
yaml9
ruby-on-rails9
thor9
e-mail6
database6
sorting6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
svenfuchs/rails-i18n
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Repository for collecting Locale data for Ruby on Rails I18n as well as other interesting, Rails related I18n stuff
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:17 reviews, 71 commits, 130 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily contributed to the Rails I18n repository by adding and modifying locale files, focusing on Scottish Gaelic pluralization and ordinalization rules. They also updated the repository's script to fetch locale files from the latest Rails release. Furthermore, the user introduced tools to count and list locales by implementing a Thor task with normalization functionality, improving the repository's management of locale data.
railsruby-on-rails
pama/pama.github.io
Jun 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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