Guilherme Schneider
Principal Backend Engineer at HeyJobs
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGuilherme Schneider is a Principal Backend Engineer based in Berlin with 17 years of experience building reliable, data-driven web platforms and a 15-year hands-on software development pedigree. He has progressed from workflow and BPM systems to leading backend architecture at HeyJobs, bringing deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker and scalable APIs. Guilherme has designed analytics and reservation systems that combine multiple data sources into actionable customer insights and improved search and performance under real-world load. An entrepreneur who founded a real-estate search startup and still contributes to open-source testing for notable Rails gems, he pairs product-minded engineering with rigorous QA practices. Colleagues value him for translating complex requirements into maintainable systems while mentoring teams through delivery and operational improvements. Outside of work he’s a father of two, which he credits for sharpening his prioritization and pragmatic decision-making.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado Ciência da Computação at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
testing10
rspec10
gui-testing10
ui-testing10
test-automation10
ruby10
ruby-rails9
jquery9
rails9
javascript8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bernat/best_in_place
Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
A RESTful unobtrusive jQuery Inplace-Editor and a helper as a Rails Gem
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Guilherme primarily focused on testing and improving the functionality of the "best_in_place" Rails gem, which is a jQuery Inplace-Editor. They wrote and fixed tests to ensure proper behavior of the in-place editing, including handling JavaScript escaping, HTML tag preservation, and correct display after edits. The user added tests for various scenarios, such as updating values and displaying HTML content, which improved the reliability and usability of the gem.
jqueryrails-gemrestrestful
guigs/recanto
Dec 2008 - Jan 2009
Contributions:9 commits in 1 month
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