Tiago Silva
Full Stack Developer at Mynewsdesk
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolTiago Silva is a Full Stack Developer with over a decade of professional experience and a B.S. in Computer Science from UFPE, now based in Stockholm. He brings deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and a strong grounding in object-oriented design, having led and maintained multiple Rails products and architected a nationwide energy platform from scratch. Comfortable across the stack, Tiago has shipped backend services, front-end features (ES6/Vue), and tackled performance, memory management, DevOps and testing disciplines. He is a pragmatic contributor to open source QA for widely used libraries like faker-ruby, improving test coverage and locale-aware data generation. Fluent in English and experienced in client-facing consultancy, he combines startup agility with discipline from larger engagements to deliver maintainable, well-tested systems. Above all, he’s a computer-science-first engineer who loves programming languages and continuously refines tooling and test suites to raise code quality.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel, Ciência da Computação, Bacharel, Ciência da Computação at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
3,397reputation
280kreached
151answers
13questions
grails
top-5%
Github Skills (16)
testing10
test-automation10
lib10
fakerjs10
faker10
ruby10
grails9
i18next8
i18n-js8
i18n-node8
id-generation6
hibernate6
annotations6
groovy6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
faker-ruby/faker
Dec 2016 - Dec 2019
A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 10 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Tiago primarily focused on writing and refactoring tests for the `faker-ruby/faker` library. They created new test suites for address-related functionality, including zip codes and full addresses, ensuring proper locale customization. They also refactored existing code and improved the readability of tests, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and maintainability. Their contributions centered around validating the accuracy and functionality of the faker library's data generation capabilities.
phonetestingrubyaddressesphone-numbers
tiagofsilva/ruby-syntax-upgrader
Nov 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:31 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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