Rodrigo Saito
Staff Production Engineer at Shopify
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRodrigo Saito is a Staff Production Engineer in Toronto with 13 years of experience building and operating resilient backend systems at scale, currently driving production excellence at Shopify. He has a strong polyglot background in Java, Ruby and Go, shaped by roles across payments, gaming, and incident-driven platforms where he led API architecture and monolith-to-microservice migrations. An active open-source contributor, Rodrigo has improved the Mongoid Ruby ORM by adding association callbacks and enhanced CodeTriage’s GitHub integrations—work that reflects attention to both correctness and developer experience. Known for pragmatic CI/CD and cloud deployment expertise (Docker, CircleCI, AWS ECR/CodeDeploy), he blends hands-on coding with production reliability practices. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful refactors and durable systems design that reduce operational toil.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Technical, Mecatrônica, Technical, Mecatrônica at Escola Senai AnchietaBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
ruby-rails10
rspec10
rails10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
orm10
mongoid10
activerecord10
mongodb10
ruby-on-rails10
github-api9
database-design9
minitest8
unit-test8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongoid
Jul 2012 - Feb 2014
The Official Ruby Object Mapper for MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigo primarily contributed to the Mongoid Ruby Object Mapper, focusing on implementing and testing association callbacks for both referenced and embedded relations. Their commits added support for `before_add`, `after_add`, `before_remove`, and `after_remove` callbacks, enhancing the control users have over data manipulation. The user's changes involved modifying existing spec files and the core Ruby files to add new testing scenarios and ensure that callbacks are correctly executed.
ruby-on-railsruby-object-mapperrailsmongoidobject-mapper
codetriage/CodeTriage
Nov 2012 - Feb 2013
Discover the best way to get started contributing to Open Source projects
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigo primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the application. They added features to fetch and display repository information by integrating with the GitHub API, including language and description retrieval. Additionally, the user implemented the ability to filter repos based on user-defined favorite languages, and they also fixed integration tests related to subscriber listings. Further work involved enhancing error handling by raising exceptions when interacting with the GitHub API.
discoverget-startedrailsjavascriptruby
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