Theo Melo
Freelance Software Engineer at Neko Studios Inc
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolTheo 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
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Degree Information Technology for Business Management, Bachelor Degree Information Technology for Business Management at Centro Paula SouzaRuby on Rails Bootcamp Computer Software Engineering, Ruby on Rails Bootcamp Computer Software Engineering at Campus CodeComputer & Information Systems (Post-Baccalaureate Diploma) | Cyber Security Major Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer & Information Systems (Post-Baccalaureate Diploma) | Cyber Security Major Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Douglas College
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (130)
crud-application10
postgresql10
low-code10
internal-tools10
ruby10
rest-api10
k8s10
no-code10
docker-compose10
api10
rest10
panels10
application10
netflix10
sap-hana10
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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