Gui Prá //
Porto Alegre - RS, 91350-090 Brazil
+55 51 99802-9275 | gui@guiprav.com
guiprav
Professional Summary
Proud of the depth and breadth of the 10+ years of expertise I bring with me. Whether it's building great product UX or highly scalable software, I'm always right at home.
Work History
Webfoundry - Co-Founder
Maceió, AL - Brazil
Jun 2023 - Present, 1 year +
A complete Tailwind-based visual site builder.
Technologies: Dominant (a React alternative I created myself), Tailwind CSS, Ace editor (ace.c9.io), OpenAI/ChatGPT, Netlify.
SuperSaaS - Senior Frontend Developer
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oct 2020 - Mar 2023, 2 years 6 months
Greenfield development of an embeddable widget for SuperSaaS calendar/agenda software with extensive test coverage, driving 200,000+ unique monthly visits.
Challenges included reporting directly to the CEO, binding the new reactive UI to the old Ruby-based views, securely managing session data on 3rd party local storage, and managing multiple iframes used as seamless-looking modals on client web sites.
Lobby CRE - Senior Frontend Developer
Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil (remote)
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020, 1 year 1 month
Bootstrapped Lobby CRE's commercial real estate data management and intelligence React-based web platform.
Challenges included selecting the right tools for bootstrapping their CRE portal in React and managing a junior developer.
Lyra Intel - React Native Developer
Porto Alegre, Brazil (remote)
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019, 7 months
New features and maintenance for Lyra Intel's commercial real estate mobile app.
Callix - Senior Front End Developer
São Paulo, SP - Brazil
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018, 1 year
Internet telephony, virtual call center software as a service.
Challenges included a progressive, seamless transition from Ruby on Rails-based web views into an Aurelia single-page application using carefully crafted iframes that looked like a cohesive application when in fact for a while it was part Ruby on Rails, part Aurelia SPA. I've also worked on a CRM form builder and converted the old Bootstrap-based forms into dynamic ones using a clever heuristic script.
Critical Mass - Lead Full-Stack Developer, Systems Admin
São Paulo, SP - Brazil
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017, 1 year 3 months
Web and mobile SaaS solutions for business partners and other clients. Public relations, training, and internal communication software.
Challenges included reporting directly to the CEO, recruitment and leading of a small team of 3 developers (including myself), delivery of 3 different apps in just the first 4 months at the company, and inheriting a medium-sized React Native codebase which we implemented on multi-AZ AWS using EC2 and Docker containers. I have also quickly identified and fixed a memory leak in production.
Notable clients: PepsiCo, Carrefour, Zurich Santander, In Press Porter Novelli, Votorantim Group, RecordTV, Embraco, Brazilian Olympic Committee.
e-Core - Outsourced Test Automation for Axispoint
Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016, 1 year 4 months
Outsourced heavy-duty Selenium-based test automation for Warner Music Group.
Challenges included delivering 2000+ lines of code per 2-week sprint and introducing effective test parallelization in the codebase, reducing the time taken to run tests from 2h to 30min.
+ 3.5 years prior professional experience
Key Skills
  • Agile
  • Software Development
  • HTML / CSS
  • JavaScript (very advanced)
  • Docker
  • Express
  • React + React Testing Library
  • Apollo / GraphQL
  • Sentry
  • Selenium
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