About

Lucas who?

I am a Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience with a special focus on Ruby on Rails and SaaS products. I have worked in several industries, including fintech, insurance, and online subscription management platform.

I began my career in technology back in college, working as a tester, as QA. In my first job, I was mainly responsible for creating and reviewing software testing documents, such as performance testing strategy documents. Additionally, I started creating performance testing scripts.

Working with those testing scripts it's when I saw an opportunity because since I started my studies, my goal was to become a programmer. While working as QA, I found that working with writing automated test scripts was a good way to keep myself closer to the code itself.

After my first job, I focused on creating, reviewing, and executing automated test scripts for Android and iOS applications using the Ruby language. This experience gave me the confidence to start pursuing opportunities as a programmer. Since then, I’ve worked as a back-end developer, applying OOP and SOLID principles with technologies including Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and RESTful APIs. My workflow incorporates TDD and BDD practices, and I'm pretty comfortable with infrastructure stuff like AWS, Docker, and Git. I’ve also been part of teams using Agile methodologies such as SCRUM and Kanban.

Currently, I think I've been trying to balance my days around these three things lately: studying programming, improving my drawing skills, and cycling. I think it's worth mentioning that I view these activities outside of work positively because they put me in contact with other people and each one brings a different feeling. And, of course, this also reflects positively on my work. Those other activities besides programming are part of who I am, so you’ll probably see me posting about them from time to time. Ok? Cool!

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