Washington Braga
Software Engineer at Chord Commerce
Piauí, Brazil
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Washington Braga is a software engineer with 15 years of experience and a decade of fully remote work, specializing in e-commerce back-end systems and developer tooling. He has contributed to prominent open-source projects in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem—most notably Spree/Solidus and payment gateway integrations—focusing on authentication, promotions, internationalization and payment processing. At companies from startups to enterprise (including Glossier and First Data), he’s built greenfield applications, maintained legacy systems on-call, and helped establish CI, monitoring, and QA practices to reduce regressions. Comfortable across client and server code, he enjoys unpacking how heterogeneous systems interact rather than being tied to a single framework. He mentors engineers across language backgrounds and has a track record of pragmatic refactors and compatibility fixes that keep critical e-commerce flows running. Based in Piauí, Brazil, he blends deep Rails expertise with a systems-minded approach to developer experience and reliability.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English Language and Literature/Letters, English Language and Literature/Letters at Universidade Estadual do Piauí
Github Skills (41)
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
devise10
cakephp10
rails-i18n10
netsuite-rest10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
ecommerce10
rubygems10
rspec10
user-authentication10
internationalization10
authentication10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spree-contrib/spree_i18n
Apr 2013 - Aug 2015
I18n translation files for Spree Commerce.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Washington primarily focused on internationalization (i18n) features within the Spree Commerce platform. Their contributions involved globalizing models like products, promotions, option types, taxonomies, and taxons, along with implementing UI components to manage and display translations. They also addressed related issues by creating migration files, modifying routes, and ensuring proper locale handling within the Spree API context and frontend. The user's work included setting up and configuring settings related to internationalization like the available locales and supported locales via the UI.
ecommercecommercerailstranslationinternationalization
spree/spree
Dec 2012 - Apr 2015
Open Source eCommerce Platform for B2B, Marketplace, and Enterprise. REST API, TypeScript SDK, and production-ready Next.js storefront. Self-host it. Own your stack. No vendor lock-in. Zero platform fees.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1029 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Washington primarily contributed to the Spree eCommerce platform, focusing on improving core features related to promotion management. Their contributions included fixing issues in the product promotion system's item calculations, enhancing the promotion#products collection method to support custom rules, and addressing a bug in the handling of empty tax rates. The user also refactored code, particularly in the area of adjustments, improving the overall efficiency and maintainability of the system.
ecommercenextjsrestrest-apitypescript
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