Waldemar Neto
Co-Founder at Tech Leads club
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolWaldemar Neto is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems, developer platforms, and engineering practices from Brazil. He helped design Atlassian’s Forge FaaS platform and later drove modular and event-driven architecture, reliability, and delivery standards as a staff engineer at BuildOps. Waldemar blends hands-on backend development in Node.js/TypeScript with technical leadership—introducing RFCs, design docs, and feature ownership to improve cross-team delivery. An active open-source contributor, he has improved CakePHP tooling and published a complete Node+TypeScript API with testing and auth best practices. Based in São Paulo, he now curates advanced content and community for senior developers at Tech Leads Club, aiming to elevate Brazil’s engineering craft beyond the senior level. Known for pragmatic mentorship and—per his GitHub bio—bad jokes, he pairs deep technical rigor with a collaborative, culture-first approach.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technologist in Analysis and Systems Development, Computer Software Engineering, Technologist in Analysis and Systems Development, Computer Software Engineering at Senac University
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (23)
database-migrations10
unit-testing10
cakephp10
apidoc10
typescript10
mongodb-database10
php10
api10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
database-migration10
typescripts10
mongodb10
console9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
waldemarnt/node-typescript-api
Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
🚀Complete Node.js API built using 👉Typescript | Jest | MongoDB | Express
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 392 commits, 106 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Waldemar contributed to the development of a Node.js API using TypeScript, Jest, and MongoDB. Their primary contributions involved setting up the initial project structure by adding TypeScript configurations, module aliases, and a start command. They also implemented unit and functional tests using Jest and integrated features like database connections and authentication, demonstrating proficiency in building a complete backend system. The user's work is centered around building and testing an API endpoint.
mongodbnodejs-apitypescriptnodejsjest
CakeDC/migrations
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Migrations Plugin for CakePHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Waldemar primarily focused on refining the `MigrationShell` class within the CakePHP framework. Their contributions included fixing console input messages, improving code formatting, and correcting class definitions and method comments. They also updated the code to use static calls for the `ConnectionManager` class. Their work enhanced the maintainability and clarity of the migration tool within the CakePHP project.
cakephp
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