Stephan De Souza is a seasoned System Specialist with 12 years of experience building backend systems, e‑commerce platforms, and data-driven web applications from Brazil’s Rio Grande do Norte. He specializes in Golang, PHP/Laravel, Redis and MongoDB, and has progressed from PHP developer to lead and senior system roles at companies like MadeiraMadeira and GBLIX. Stephan contributes to notable open-source work improving Laravel’s MongoDB integration—fixing relation handling, adding schema helpers and tests—demonstrating deep practical knowledge of database drivers and ORM behavior. He combines hands‑on engineering with product-focused analytics and SEO awareness, making him effective at delivering performant, search‑friendly e‑commerce solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces subtle integration bugs and turns them into test-backed, production-ready fixes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnólogo de Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação, Information Technology, Tecnólogo de Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação, Information Technology at Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina
Programação de Computadores, Computer Programming, Programação de Computadores, Computer Programming at Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial
Técnico Sistemas da Informação, Information Technology, Técnico Sistemas da Informação, Information Technology at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Santa Catarina
A MongoDB based Eloquent model and Query builder for Laravel (Moloquent)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 23 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily contributed to the `mongodb/laravel-mongodb` repository, focusing on improving the MongoDB integration with the Laravel framework. Their commits included fixing relation issues within the Eloquent model, specifically concerning `morphTo` and `HasOne/HasMany` relationships. Furthermore, the user implemented schema-related functionalities such as `dropIndexIfExists` and `hasIndex` with added tests. The user also addressed aggregation queries and queue job issues within the MongoDB integration.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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