Samir Braga
Chief Information Officer
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolSamir Braga is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Information Officer with 15 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on development expertise spanning CMSs to concurrent systems and large-scale APIs. At Nextar he combines full-stack engineering and system administration to run billing, payments, integrations and infrastructure for a PoS platform serving 45k+ customers, while also co-founding WorkMesh to turn architectural drawings into interactive indoor maps. Proficient in Ruby, PHP and JavaScript, he is especially strong with Ruby on Rails, Phalcon, MySQL/PostgreSQL performance tuning, and Linux-based server orchestration across on-prem and cloud (AWS/GCP). He brings a rare blend of deep backend/data skills and practical ops automation—scripts that sync N instances to keep production stable—yet consistently contributes to UI/UX and front-end frameworks like React and Ember. Based in São Paulo, Samir pairs entrepreneurial product sensibility with pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, scalable systems.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
101reputation
57reached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (6)
slug9
strings8
slugify8
html6
javascript6
jquery6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
samir/StringToSlug
Jul 2010 - Sep 2020
Generate slug version of strings whith accented characters
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 10 years 2 months
stringsslugifyaccented-charactersslugwoff2
nextar/backoffice-desafio-fullstack
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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