Summary
Flávio Soares is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience building web platforms, Linux/Unix systems, and scalable services, currently serving as CTO at Connect The Doc in Greater Vancouver. A Drupal specialist since 2004 and polyglot developer (C/C++, Perl, Python, PHP, JavaScript), he blends deep CMS internals knowledge with systems-level expertise—he even created a bespoke Linux distribution in the late 1990s. Flávio has led architecture and delivery for high-throughput projects (including an email cluster that sent nearly a million messages/day) and has guided hundreds of Drupal migrations and deployments for institutions like FGV. Comfortable at both executive and hands-on levels, he focuses today on healthcare SaaS, web/Drupal and Python development, bringing an entrepreneurial mindset informed by decades of open-source and operations work.
11 years of coding experience