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Name
Rodrigo Franco
Application Developer
 
Bio
Rodrigo Franco is a brazilian web application developer and living proof of the viability of trans-ocean geekitude. He's spent the last decade years working on projects around the world, including Odeo.com, Moourl.com and Chargify. He created one of the biggest Ruby on Rails communities in Brazil. In his free time, Rodrigo enjoys extending his geek tentacles to other realms such as MMORPGs, boardgames, and searching for the perfect coffee.
 
Location
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(GMT) Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Lisbon
 
Experience
 
 
Company
Grasshopper
 
Role
Senior Web Developer
 
From
December 2009 - Present
 
Location
Needham, MA
Company
Hotchalk
Role
Ruby on Rails Developer
From
February 2007 - January 2010
Description
Web application development, UI design, system maintenance and scalability profiling are some duties I've done at Hotchalk, an exciting startup.
Location
Campbell, CA
Company
Assembla
Role
Ruby on Rails Developer
From
June 2006 - February 2007
Description
Development of Assembla's project management application and clients projects.

Extensible use of Ruby on Rails with BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) and AJAX.
Location
Needham, MA
Company
Flexcode
Role
Ruby on Rails Developer
From
January 2006 - December 2006
Description
Main developer at flexcode, a small web 2.0 coding house. Ruby on rails, web standards, microformats and a lot of ajax wizardry as tools of trade. Clients includes Obvious Corp, Makalu Media and other startups.
Location
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Company
Big In Japan
Role
Ruby on Rails Developer
From
November 2005 - August 2006
Description
Ruby on Rails development of Big in Japan (Package of web 2.0 tools) using AJAX (prototype, dojo), micro-formats (hcard, hcalendar, hreview) and web standards.
Location
Dallas, TX
Company
Insite
Role
Architect Developer
From
March 2005 - November 2005
Description
Web Application development using Java (Struts, Hibernate, JSF and JDBC) an Ruby on Rails for clients like Petrobras, Globo.com and IG.
Location
São Paulo, Brazil
Company
Cyclelogic
Role
Technical Solutions Engineer
From
January 2002 - February 2005
Description
System administration, server maintenance and development regarding infrastructure of big telecom system, making Brazilian SMS (Short Messaging) system works for Claro, VIVO and Oi (Brazilian Telecoms).

* Development of support related tools using bash and PHP
* Technical Writing / Documentation development
* System administration of 10 high loaded servers (Windows, Linux)
* Internal Project Management
 
Education
 
 
University
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
 
From
1998 - 2003
 
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