Pedro Gaspar
Senior Product Developer at Podia
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Top SchoolPedro Gaspar is a Senior Product Developer with 17 years in software engineering and over a decade specializing in Ruby on Rails and web applications, currently shaping product and engineering at Podia. Remote-first for the past nine years, he blends strong backend expertise (Rails, Sidekiq, Elasticsearch) with modern frontend work in React, and a disciplined focus on automated testing and maintainability. He has driven testing coverage to high levels in past roles and contributes to community learning as a mentor at Exercism and collaborator on the exercism/ruby test suite. Pedro is also proactive about inclusive hiring and team culture, having sourced diverse candidates and helped write a code of conduct. Curious about Elixir/Phoenix and contemporary frontend trends, he pairs steady craftsmanship with a continual-learning mindset.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Informatics Engineering, Master, Informatics Engineering at Universidade de Coimbra12º, Science and Tecnology, 12º, Science and Tecnology at Colégio Rainha Santa Isabel
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (12)
minitest10
ruby10
tracks10
testing10
afnetworking6
activerecord6
ios6
error-handling6
mongodb6
friendly-id6
mongoid6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/ruby
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Exercism exercises in Ruby.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:59 commits, 38 PRs, 22 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily contributed to the project by regenerating and updating test files across multiple exercises within the Exercism Ruby track. The commits focused on updating test generators to utilize the standard error indicator and reflect updated test data versions. Their work directly impacted the testing infrastructure and ensured the accuracy and validity of the exercises in the Ruby track.
exercism-exercisesexercism-trackrubypaddingexercism
pgaspar/oqfc
Oct 2012 - Aug 2017
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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