# About Source: https://ibrunotome.github.io/about/ Language: English Published: 2020-03-29 Updated: 2026-11-04 Servant of God. Husband. Software Engineer. I'm a software engineer and full-stack developer based in Minas Gerais, Brazil (UTC-3), with 12 years of experience building and deploying applications, from e-commerce platforms to SaaS products. Nine years as a business partner and co-founder have shaped how I approach both development and business decisions. Security, performance, reliability, and maintainability guide that work. My technical background includes 9 years with Laravel and deep expertise in its ecosystem, 7 years with Vue.js, and 5 years with React, Next.js, and TypeScript. Production infrastructure experience includes 7 years with Docker and 3 with Kubernetes. Since June 2025, I've been building open-source prediction market infrastructure at Kuest, working with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL. [View my contributions to Kuest](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Akuest%2Fprediction-market+author%3Aibrunotome&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc) **[View CV (PDF)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uc8iFTI0B5V0FPX0HXdC58cp-Tp_AJyQ/view?usp=sharing)** · [Email me](mailto:ibrunotome@gmail.com) · [GitHub](https://github.com/ibrunotome) ## Experience ### Kuest **Founding Software Engineer** · Jun. 2025 - Present · Remote, Brazil White-label infrastructure for prediction markets. - Helped shape the architecture and onboarding flow so people without a technical background could launch a prediction market in **under 15 minutes**. - Enabled people without prior crypto experience to fund their accounts by credit card or Pix, making onboarding simpler. - Supported the founder in investor meetings, translating discussions between English and Portuguese and explaining technical details. - Enabled self-hosted deployments with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, providing alternatives to the default Vercel + Supabase stack. - Automated market translations into **11 languages**, batching AI requests and skipping content that had already been translated unless the source changed. **Stack:** TypeScript, React, Next.js, TanStack Query, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Zustand, Better Auth, wagmi, Codex, and cubic.dev. ### Seguidores **Partner & Software Engineer** · Oct. 2017 - Aug. 2026 · Remote, Brazil An e-commerce platform where I worked on both development and business decisions. - Migrated the Shopify store to a tailored platform serving **hundreds of thousands of users**, and later became a partner. - Designed the entire cloud infrastructure with continuous integration and deployment, reducing overall infrastructure costs by **over 70%**. - Implemented cross-selling, upselling, and automated marketing email campaigns, increasing revenue to **almost 2x** its previous level. - Integrated seven payment gateways behind a shared response contract, including Bitcoin, which generated substantial revenue. - Automated order fulfillment and subscription renewals through payment webhooks and queued jobs, reducing manual processing. - Developed two related React and Next.js projects that reached **over 600,000 monthly users** and converted some of them into paying customers. - Maintained **over 85% backend test coverage**. **Stack:** Laravel, Go, Vue.js, Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS, MySQL, Redis, Docker and Kubernetes. ### Viral **Co-Founder & Software Engineer** · Sep. 2023 - Jun. 2025 · Remote, Brazil A B2B SaaS product by the same founder as Seguidores. I developed the platform to help e-commerce store owners find and manage social media influencers to promote their products. - Integrated **11 e-commerce platforms**, including Shopify and WooCommerce, to automate coupon generation and campaign sales tracking. - Unified the e-commerce integrations behind a shared response contract, testing each integration against it to simplify development. - Built background influencer research with Redis rate limiting and concurrency controls to respect third-party API limits. - Maintained **over 90% backend test coverage**. **Stack:** Laravel, Go, Nuxt.js, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, Cloudflare, Redis, and Stripe. ### CelulaWeb **Software Developer** · Feb. 2017 - Oct. 2017 · Formiga, Minas Gerais, Brazil A software house where I worked on Java projects and websites for local businesses. - Maintained Java projects serving **over 3,000 paying customers** at a resort club, and built WordPress websites for local businesses. - Developed a Python script to sync customer records from a legacy system with a new turnstile system at the resort entrance. - Reduced infrastructure costs by migrating all websites from large AWS instances to smaller VPS servers. ### SMM Panel **Freelance Software Developer** · Feb. 2014 - Jan. 2017 · Formiga, Minas Gerais, Brazil I provided ongoing freelance support for a company focused on SMM panels and social media e-commerce. I used PHP and MySQL to develop new features, maintain the platform, and deliver improvements as needed. ## Skills - **DevOps:** Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Linux, VPS, Git, and Terraform. - **Back-end:** PHP, Laravel, REST APIs, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, Pest, PHPUnit, Node.js, Python, and Go. - **Front-end:** Vue.js, Nuxt.js, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, JavaScript, Inertia.js, Vitest, and Playwright. - **AI:** Daily use of LLMs, Codex, and cubic.dev over the past year. - **Domain knowledge:** E-commerce, SaaS, prediction markets, performance, cost reduction, process automation, and social media APIs. ## Languages - **English:** Fluent. - **Portuguese:** Native. ## Education ### Federal Institute of Minas Gerais (IFMG) **B.S. in Computer Science** · Jun. 2013 - Jun. 2017 · Formiga, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Internship at Unimed in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, in 2014, working with SQL and Crystal Reports. - Extension project: **Speech**, software for autistic children. - Thesis: *A Prototype of an Academic Business Simulator for the Wholesale Sector*. ## Get in touch You can reach me at [ibrunotome@gmail.com](mailto:ibrunotome@gmail.com) or find my work on [GitHub](https://github.com/ibrunotome).