Summary
Rai Gondim is a pragmatic Tech Lead and senior Ruby/Rails engineer with nine years of experience building, refactoring and scaling mission-critical fintech and SaaS systems from Brazil. He has a strong track record reducing costs and boosting performance—delivering a near-99% speedup in a subscription expiration flow and achieving >25% AWS cost savings on legacy monoliths. Comfortable across the stack and cloud, he combines hands-on coding (Docker, RDS, ECS, Sidekiq, Redis, RSpec) with mentorship and team coordination, often acting as the sole senior engineer driving architecture and operational improvements. Rai’s background includes refactoring monoliths into microservices, architecting PWA integrations and implementing high-impact automations that unlocked new customer scale for his employers. He’s data- and reliability-minded, routinely using observability tools (CloudWatch, New Relic, Sentry) to turn incidents into durable platform improvements.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Technology in Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Technology in Computer Engineering at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Portuguese, English