About

Posted on October 26, 2011

Just founded Codeminer 42 in October 2011. A Fledgling consulting company focused on small teams with great developers to server Ruby on Rails, Mobile and new technologies and new startups.
I worked at GoNow Consulting as Rails and Mobile Team Manager, helped put Gonow in the Brazilian IT Market radar.
I worked as Project and Product Manager at Locaweb, the largest hosting company in Latin America.
I worked as an offshore outsourced programmer and held the position of Brazil Rails Practice Manager for Surgeworks LLC.
I wrote the first Ruby on Rails book in Brazilian Portuguese. (Corrections | Preview | Code)
I later revised Dave Thomas’ and Andy Hunt’s book “Agile Web Development with Rails”, which was translated in Brazilian Portuguese by Artmed Publishing.
Helped establish the Ruby on Rails community starting at the beginning of 2006 (before Ruby on Rails was fashionable). I blog regularly and I also produced screencasts and translated relevant articles from English to Portuguese.
I developed and gave an online Ruby on Rails class in 2007 for the Brazilian company e-Genial Online Training courses.
I organized one of the first small RoR conferences in São Paulo, Reject Conf 2007.
I joined Brazilian Rails activist Carlos Brando to create the Ruby on Rails Podcast Brasil, which we terminated after episode #39 due to the lack of free time to continue this voluntary endeavor.
I spoke at 15 events in 2008.
I spoke at 28 events in 2009.
I spoke at RailsConf 2010 at Baltimore, Maryland.
I spoke at 30 events in 2010. I also changed my Rails Summit conference to RubyConf Brazil with the sanction of RubyCentral.

I created and led the organization of “Rails Summit Latin America”, in 2008 and 2009. The 2-day conferences had more than 20 important international presenters in the RoR community. More than 550 developers participated in each of the two conferences. I made the connections and invited well recognized presenters, including: Chad Fowler, Obie Fernandez, Glenn Vanderburg, Gregg Pollack.
I have written articles for printed magazines such as TI Digital and Revista W in Brazil.
I am columnist for the Gestão 2.0 weblog as part of the Info Online Blog series. Info Magazine is the most well known IT magazine in Brazil (something like “ComputerWorld” magazine).
In 2008, Ruby on Rails was awarded Technology of the Year by Info Magazine. I played a key role in creating the interest in Ruby on Rails in Brazil that led to this award.
In 2009 I was awarded for my achievements in the Agile and Ruby on Rails communities as Personality of the Year by Info Magazine.
In 2009 I was awarded PostRank Topblogs 2009 – Influencer Award by PostRank.com

Brazilian Community Translation Work

I led the translation of 37signals’ Getting Real
I led the translation of Chris Breen’s Learn to Program online version of his book.

Interviews

for FiveRuns.com
for RubyLearning.com
talking about Agile software development for Info Online: Part 1, Part 2 e Part 3
for TechTrotter
commentary to Yahoo News regarding the very-backward law regulating Systems Analysts
for The Geek Talk