Thiago Pradi
Senior Software Engineer at Doximity
Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Top SchoolThiago Pradi is a senior software engineer with 18 years of experience building and scaling web products, currently contributing at Doximity after leading product engineering at Arrows.to and Trusted Health. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, Turbo/Stimulus, React, GraphQL and PostgreSQL, owning full lifecycles from system design to deployment while partnering closely with product and design. A pragmatic leader and former Head of Engineering, he has delivered enterprise healthcare platforms and applicant tracking systems, and has run teams through roadmaps, architecture and high-quality execution. Thiago is an active open-source contributor—his octopus project provides ActiveRecord database sharding and he’s contributed to ruby/spec—demonstrating deep Ruby expertise and attention to compatibility and testing. He leverages LLMs to accelerate prototyping, debugging and AI-driven product features, and holds a Master’s in Informatics with research applying visual computing to teach facial expressions to children with autism.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Federal University of ParanáBCS Bachelor of Computer Science, BCS Bachelor of Computer Science at FURB
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (14)
activerecord10
spec10
rails10
sharding10
ruby-on-rails10
rubyspec10
test-automation10
ruby10
migration9
mspec9
arraylist9
test-suite8
replication6
mysql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thiagopradi/octopus
May 2010 - Dec 2020
Database Sharding for ActiveRecord
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:694 commits, 55 PRs, 109 pushes in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Thiago is primarily focused on developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure for database sharding in the context of ActiveRecord. They created and modified several Ruby files to implement the core functionality of the sharding framework. The commits focus on defining an API for sharding, handling database connections, and creating migrations to support the sharding implementation.
activerecorddatabaseshardingrubyruby-on-rails
ruby/spec
Apr 2009 - Feb 2011
The Ruby Spec Suite aka ruby/spec
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Thiago contributed to the Ruby spec suite by writing and updating test cases. Their work included creating new specs for array methods like `choice` and `sample`, and modifying existing specs to accommodate changes between Ruby 1.8 and 1.9. The user also ported existing array core library specs to Ruby 1.9 and made adjustments for frozen array behaviors. These contributions are critical for ensuring the correct behavior and compatibility of Ruby's core array functionality across different Ruby versions.
rubylanguage-specsmspecrubyspec
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