Helder Ribeiro

Current

Google Summer of Code Student at Review Board

Past

Country Manager Brazil at Qype
Embedded Systems Interface Developer at ProFUSION
Ruby on Rails developer at QYPE

Google Summer of Code student at Ruby Central Inc.
Java developer at Projeto Harpia
English teacher at British and American

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Education

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

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Industry

Computer Software

Helder Ribeiro’s Summary

Computer Engineering student, Free Software enthusiast and Web Developer. Experience includes data-intensive decision-support systems in Java, webapp testing tools in Ruby and web development with Ruby on Rails.

Interested in dynamic languages, compilers/VMs and web applications, with a critic's eye for design and usability.

Helder Ribeiro’s Specialties:

Ruby, Java2SE (Good knowledge of Swing, JFreeChart, Garbage Collection, Serialization, XML, Remote Method Invocation).
Webdev: functional testing of web apps, Firefox extension development, Ruby on Rails.

Helder Ribeiro’s Experience

Google Summer of Code Student

Review Board

(Computer Software industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

Project to implement signal-based architecture for notifications on ReviewBoard and implement support for WebHooks.
My accepted proposal: http://helderribeiro.net/?p=18
Country Manager Brazil

Qype

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

September 2008 — June 2009 (10 months)

Business development, developer recruiting, training and management, software quality assurance (code review) and development using Ruby on Rails, recruiting, training and management of community support staff, website localization to Brazilian market.
Embedded Systems Interface Developer

ProFUSION

(Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

Internship. Did nterface programming with Edje/Evas (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries), in C.
Ruby on Rails developer

QYPE

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

December 2007 — May 2008 (6 months)

Ruby on Rails Developer.
Google Summer of Code student

Ruby Central Inc.

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)

Tool for browser automation and functional testing of web applications. It is an implementation of a translator for XML user browser activity records into Firewatir code.

Application link: http://www.students.ic.unicamp.br/~ra033245/soc_ruby.txt
Java developer

Projeto Harpia

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Job consisted of writing both front-end scientific graphing applications and back-end database-backed applications. Experience includes modeling, implementation, refactoring, debugging and a bit of performance testing of applications.
English teacher

British and American

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Translation and Localization industry)

March 2003 — October 2003 (8 months)

Helder Ribeiro’s Education

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

undergraduate , Computer Engineering , 2004 — 2010 (expected)

Activities and Societies:

Grupo Pró Software Livre (Free Software Group), Centro Acadêmico da Computação (Students representative), Comissão Diretora de Informática

Additional Information

Helder Ribeiro’s Interests:

ruby on rails,ruby,dynamic languages,foreign languages,german culture,latin,web development,machine learning,artificial intelligence,concurrent programming,traveling,modern portuguese literature,brazilian literature,religion,free software,open source software