Samuel Simões
Founder at Poker Now
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Simões is a founder and hands-on product developer with 13 years building scalable web applications and UX-driven experiences from Brazil. He created Poker Now, a browser-based poker platform serving thousands of daily sessions, and has led backend and analytics efforts for large hospital management systems impacting public healthcare users. His core stack spans Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, React/JS ecosystems, Node.js, Redis and Docker on AWS, blending server-side reliability with polished Web UI architecture. Samuel is as comfortable architecting resilient backends as designing the product-facing interface, and he prioritizes code quality, observability and developer ergonomics. He writes about technical topics and publishes his open-source work on GitHub, signaling an ongoing commitment to community and continuous learning. A detail often overlooked: he pairs product instincts with daily operational responsibilities, running servers and UX design himself for production services.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Desenvolvimento Web, Desenvolvimento, Desenvolvimento Web, Desenvolvimento at SENAC
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (94)
code-completion10
code-analysis10
backbone10
javascript10
dependency-free10
basecamp10
buffer10
css10
chrome-extension10
webpack10
google-chrome10
boilerplate10
hanami9
paypal9
time-tracking9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
samuelsimoes/vim-jsx-utils
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Plugin with some utilities (like extract partial render, rename tag, select self close tags) to folks who work with JSX on Vim.
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
jsxvimclosing-tagsvim-jsx-utilsvim-plugin
samuelsimoes/vimfiles
Apr 2013 - Mar 2019
Contributions:313 commits, 68 pushes, 1 comment in 6 years
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