Theo Melo
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorTheo Melo is a freelance software engineer based in Vancouver with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, primarily in Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript frameworks. He has driven measurable operational savings—migrating CI to self-hosted runners and replacing hosted realtime services—to save teams six-figure and multi-thousand-dollar sums while improving reliability. Theo excels in developer experience and automation, having reduced onboarding time with Dev Containers, built internal CLI tooling, and created CI-to-Slack release integrations. He’s delivered e-commerce platforms using Solidus/Spree integrated with Stripe and modernized front-ends via React and SSR, while also implementing centralized monitoring with Datadog. Comfortable working across product, ops, and support, he blends pragmatic engineering, strong test practices, and mentoring to help teams ship faster and with more confidence.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
473reputation
15kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (93)
crud-application10
low-code10
coverage10
internal-tools10
ruby10
replay10
ai-agent10
no-code10
netflix10
rails10
workflow-automation10
open-source10
mongoose9
jruby9
websocket-client9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RubyLadies/website
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
melostbr/sitesdiarios
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
sitespythonevolution
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