Miguel Pragier
Software Engineer
Who I am
My name is Miguel Pragier, and I've been making software since 1996.
For each project, a different set of technologies, addressing business demands and keeping things simple.
Currently I'm happy using GOlang with SQL and NoSQL databases, deploying to serverless and managed environment.
I worked with banks, brokers, marketing agencies, government, software houses, mature companies and startups as developer or consultant.
Any operating system, language, platform or industry is welcome!
Today I'm working as software engineer, platform architect and team's tech leader, dedicated to keep people focused, productive, united and zen.
For each project, a different set of technologies, addressing business demands and keeping things simple.
Currently I'm happy using GOlang with SQL and NoSQL databases, deploying to serverless and managed environment.
I worked with banks, brokers, marketing agencies, government, software houses, mature companies and startups as developer or consultant.
Any operating system, language, platform or industry is welcome!
Today I'm working as software engineer, platform architect and team's tech leader, dedicated to keep people focused, productive, united and zen.
What I do
- Software Engineering
- Database design and programming
- Backend Development for IoT and Web.
Personal info and ways to find me
| Birth | January, 1975 |
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| Country | Brazil |
| Location | São Paulo, SP |
| miguelpragier@gmail.com | |
| Skype | miguelpragier |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelpragier | |
| GitHub | https://github.com/miguelpragier |
| Tweeter | https://twitter.com/miguelpragier |
| This Document | http://pragier.me/ |
Education and Idioms
| Portuguese | Native |
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| English | Fluent for work and conversation, intermediary for reading, writing. And still learning! |
| Spanish | Basic for conversation, but weak for reading and writing |
| Graduation | I.T Management at Universidade Guarulhos, SP |
| Scrum Master | Caelum and Scrum Alliance (My profile there) |
| Applied eletronics maintenance | Alladin Independant School, SP |
Technologies I'm using
| GO Language |
| Microsoft Azure Cloud |
| MySql, PostgreSQL and MongoDB |
| Nginx |
| Ubuntu |
| DigitalOcean |
| PHP7 |
Technologies I've ever used
| Python |
| C# |
| ANSI C |
| MS Windows |
| SQLite Database |
| MS SQL Server |
| T-SQL ( Transact SQL ) |
| Java SE |
| Windows PowerShell |
| Java EE, ME |
| Casl |
| Clipper Language |
| Cobol Language |
| DBase |
| Delphi |
| Firebird Database |
| Interbase |
| Microsiga/TOTVS ADVPL |
| ASP |
| MS Access Database |
| MS JetSql Language |
| MS Visual Basic (versions 3 to 6 ) |
| MS VBScript |
| MSql Database |
| Oracle Database |
| Oracle PL/Sql Language |
| Q-Basic |
Years per industry (Last 15 years)
Professional Experience
| Title | Software Engineer |
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| Company | Open Vista Global |
| Period | Since 11/2018 |
| Job Description |
Backend developer, platform architect and tech leader |
| Technology | GO, MySQL, MongoDB and AZURE Cloud |
| Some more | We're creating the best digital investment platform, focused in brazilian user |
| Title | Software Engineer |
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| Company | Manticore T&C |
| Period | From 12/2015 to 06/2017 |
| Job Description |
Application development, technology consultancy and tactic projects organization.
During this period, I've been working with troubled projects, with complex political scenarios and limited budgets. I'm Manticore's founder and owner. |
| Technology | C#, PHP, Python, Mysql, Wordpress, Bootstrap, Twig, AWS/EC2, etc. |
| Some more | Manticore acts mainly where the companies were previously abandoned by other professionals or where there is no budget for hire a team, and my multidisciplinary experience can be useful |
| Title | Software Engineer |
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| Company | Axiros GmBH |
| Period | From 08/2015 to 12/2015 |
| Job Description |
IOT focused development, with Python and C Language for Win32Api/Windows CE and Linux.
Relationship with worldwide team members and product owners, in portuguese, english and spanish. |
| Technology | Python, MySql, WindosCE/Mobile, C Language over Win32 API and Windows/Linux integration |
| Some more | Axiros is a Munich-based software company focused on open service and device management for fixed line and mobile broadband. Axiros boasts significant experience and name recognition in TR-069 device management solutions. |
| Title | Software Engineer & Lead Developer |
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| Company | EscolherSeguro Corretora de Seguros S/A |
| Period | Between 08/2011 and 03/2015 |
| Job Description | Main tech responsible for software, web, BI and database development. |
| Technology | Azure ( Sql, VM and Storage) AWS EC2, C#, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, PostgreSql 9, Sql Server, Node.js, MySql, WordPress, FormStack, etc. |
| Some more |
EscolherSeguro is the first serious online insurance broker to operate in the brazilian Market. The main goal was to generate leads offering a very popular "online price comparing tool". We developed for typical finance industry challenges as high availability and agile deployment. My team always worked having executives, CRMs users and website visitors as customers. Always focusing in business deliveries and good relationship. |
| Title | Software Engineer and Technology Manager |
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| Company | Imóvel do Proprietário |
| Period | Between 02/2010 and 08/2011 |
| Job Description | Creation of an entire PHP framework for fast forms development, project leading and a soft business intelligence API based on database queries |
| Technology | PHP, HTML-Strict, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, PostgreSql9 over Linux and Win7. |
| Some more | Imóvel do Proprietário is a brazilian website specialized in real state announcements and ads. It's the first brazilian website focused in property owners, offering nice tools to manage the ads. Since the begining, it was a hard and nice school, where I´ve learned how to create from zero a complete digital company, with technology internal and outsourced infrastructure, hire multi-discipline workers, build stable webservers on cloud environment, lead technology strategy and stablish strong partnership and integration proccesses with other players. At this company, we´ve created a very good reputation as a professional, hi-tech, creative and inovative |
| Title | Software Engineer and technology Manager |
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| Company | ReelMatic Eletrônica |
| Period | From 04/2006 to 11/2011 |
| Job Description | Definition of technology strategies and advanced 2D game programming |
| Technology | ANSI C Language over Win32API, SDL for Win32 and Linux, game servers written in C# and running PostgreSql, and workflow software written in PHP with MySql. |
| Some more | Reelmatic distinguish itself as a brazilian casino games developer. There, we employ the ANSI C language to implement the same game in Windows and Linux, with small coding changes. We had based all our work on the great SDL library - the most used 2D multimidia layer/framework. However, the server softwares I had created with C#, because we elected Windows as Server Platform, and because C# is very good with TCP/IP networking. The PostgreSQL database was choosen by it robustness, fast engine and low-cost. The "project manager" software I made employing the PHP language, in a Ubuntu LAMP server. I consider PHP very productive and well-documented. |
| Title | Senior Software Developer |
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| Company | KBus Ltda. |
| Period | From 08/2005 to 04/2006 |
| Job Description | Technology consulting and programming client/server, creation of embedded API routines on x86 16 bits platform |
| Technology | C, C#, MySql, PHP and PostgreSql |
| Some more |
| Title | Senior Software Developer |
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| Company | .ComDomínio S/A |
| Period | From 03/2005 to 07/2005 |
| Job Description | Software development and database design. |
| Technology | J2EE, Oracle (PLSQL) and PostgreSql (PL/PGSQL), PHP and DHTML. |
| Some more |
| Title | B.I. Analyst |
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| Company | Credigy Brasil |
| Period | 10/2004 to 03/2005 |
| Job Description | Development and maintenance of Stored Procedures written for MS Sql Server, Statistical and financial data analysis, information and reports emission through a well integrated Sharepoint and Office 2003 environment, Daily maintenance of automatic reporting systems and Bilingual helpdesk support to managers and clients. |
| Technology | C#, VB.Net, VB6, And mainly TransactSQL |
| Some more | Credigy is a purchaser and manager of distressed assets with operations in the United States and Brazil. There I've worked in Business Intelligence for the first time. And it was very nice. We did highly complex SQL queries, eventually using DataMining and OLAP concepts, to offer ad-hoc answers to suport very important decisions of our directors and investors. At that time, I learned so much about automation using MS Office, about extreme complex SQL puzzles and a bit about MS SharePoint publishing. Our only database was the MS SqlServer. |
| Title | Freelance programmer |
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| Company | Colgate Corp - Social Actions Divsion |
| Period | From 06/2003 to 06/2004 |
| Job Description | Complete software engineering and life-cycle, from plannig and design until development and continuous refactoring. |
| Technology | MySql, JavaScript, DHTML and PHP |
| Some more | Colgate had an outsourced CallCenter, and I was hired to create the Call Center Management System, from the sctratch. Based on general characteristics of employes, hardware and avaliable infrastructure, and considering the intended goals internal politics, I've planned an entire intranet in PHP/DHTML and MySql. The software was deployed through the incremental method, one operational piece per time. Each module validated by the user, untill all positions and functions was integrated. Some years after, the division was entirely outsourced, and a whole new team was hired. But the software was still "our" software, and keep working even with the new orientations. In fact, that system need just a few resources, and is totally concentrated in a LAMP server. It's easy to maintain and to move. On that important period, I dove deep in PHP, Apache, MySql, Debian Linux, JavaScript and formal HTML. There, was very important to have a well designed database, because on the daily heaviy working time, complex queries divide processing with a big number of attendances. |
| Title | Independent technology Consultant |
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| Company | MIRSZ Ltda. |
| Period | From 01/2003 to 08/2004 |
| Job Description | Database design and maintenance and software development, creation and management of intranets and Mobile software development. |
| Technology | C, C#, ASP, MSSql, MySql, PHP, eVB, VB6. |
| Some more |
| Title | Software Developer |
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| Company | Soluziona / Palm Solution with Mirsz Ltda. |
| Period | rom 06/2002 to 01/2003 |
| Job Description | PocketPC (Window CE) Software development, internal automation and database administration in Linux and Windows platforms. Backend systems development, processes analysis and software planning and design, workgroups coordination |
| Technology | C, C#, ASP, MSSql, MySql, Oracle, PHP, eVB, VB6. |
| Some more |
| Title | Software Developer and DBA |
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| Company | MIRSZ Ltda. |
| Period | From 11/2001 to 06/2002 |
| Job Description | Software development and processes organization, implementing of free/open software and development over these platforms, in a form of reduce technology costs, maintenance of several database systems in different customers, Mainly Oracle, MSSql, MySql, Access and Dbase. |
| Technology | C, C#, C++, Java ME, ASP, MSSql, MySql, PostgreSql, PHP, eVB, VB6. |
| Some more | MIRSZ was founded by three friends/programmers, which work with new technologies. I was one of them. In this period we work with a variety of technologies. To organizations of various sizes and even to other I.T companies. MIRSZ has strongly contributed to mobile technologies popularization, with cellphones, smartphones, tablets or pdas, integrating embeded applications with traditional back-end application servers. There, I perform mainly as DBA and business man. I employ massively Oracle, MSSqlServer, VisualBasic, Java and start working with C#. |
| Initial Title | Systems Analyst |
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| Title | MS Sql Server DBA/DBD |
| Company | Microsiga ( Currently TOTVS ) |
| Period | From 10/2000 to 11/2001 |
| Job Description | Software development and maintenance on mobile devices, backend systems design and development, Transact SQL Stored Procedures creation, to replace heavy routines written in clipper on client machines. |
| Technology | C, MSSql, Oracle, Clipper, ADVPL, VB6, CASL, Delphi. |
| Some more |
I came to Microsiga to compose the New Technologies task-force. My job was make programs in mobile devices, over Windows CE, o Palm OS e o Symbian and some proprietary OSs.
I did programs in CASL, OPL, VB and in e-VB. Later I went to DBA department, as MSSqlServer programmer. My work was migrate ADVPL ( A proprietary language ) routines or Clipper to Transact-SQL. |
| Title | Database programmer and Software Developer |
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| Company | Banco ABN Amro ( Outsourced for Advanta / WW Solutions Ltda. ) |
| Period | From 06/1999 to 10/2000 |
| Job Description | Creation, maintenance and optimization of source code libraries, programming in Visual Basic with Sql Server and Oracle databases, software development for mobile devices using the CASL language, SQLServer database tunning. |
| Technology | MSSql, MySql, PHP, VB6, Oracle. |
| Some more | When the bank Real was internally adapting to the operation model of it new owner - The ABN Amro Bank, dozens of groups was renewing, migrating and transforming the corporation softwares. And some, as I did, was creating new software. There I did a huge workflow manager, intended to attend only the HelDesk department. I had conversations with several software users, with license to give me orientations about their routines. This way, with the essential help of my manager and system analyst, we did the software knownest as e-Helper. I also worked on the first brazilian ATM monitoring software. Our employed technologies was Visual Basic, MS-Sql Server and Oracle. |
| Title | DBA and Software Developer |
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| Company | Ícone Software Office |
| Period | From 04/1998 to 06/1999 |
| Job Description | Creation of API for huge database management applications, software systems conversion from VB3 to VB4 and VB5, technology modernizing and improvement, migrating legacy routines to the client-server architecture. ( More than one hundred thousand lines written in transact SQL.) and SQLServer v6 and v6.5 database tuning. |
| Technology | MSSql, Acess e VB3, VB4, VB5 and VB6. |
| Some more | Ícone is a small and agile software development enterprise. Our work was all based on Visual Basic and MS Sql Server. At Ícone I learned to administrate and optimize databases, and create hundreds of Stored Procedures. Our goal was to migrate client based application proccessing to the Client/Server architecture. Migrating other people VB3 written software to VB4 and VB5, I knew several programming styles. Our main customers was the Real State players. I was pleased to work with some great professionals, as Mr. Antônio Ozi, Eduardo Schwartz and - specially - Ginaldo Vasconcelos, who is Ícone owner and main executive currently. I learned a lot with him |
| Title | Software Developer |
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| Company | Prompsi Informática |
| Period | From 1996 to 1998 |
| Job Description | Development of DBMS systems. |
| Technology | Clipper, Acess, VB3, VB4 and VB5. |
| Some more |
| Title | PC/Micro computer's operation Instructor |
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| Company | Grupo SOS Computadores |
| Period | From 1996 to 1997 |
| Job Description | To teach how to operate a PC running DOS or Windows, and their main programs. |
| Technology | Windows, DOS, MS Office World, PowerPoint, Excell and Acces and Wordstar, Lotus 123, DBase and Internet |
| Some more | I was invited by this ( at time ) famous informatic school, when they was expanding and searching new instructors. On the period of one year and a half, I gave classes of DBase, Q-Basic, DOS, Windows 3.1x, 95, Word, Excel, Access, Basic Computer Operation, did dozens of consulting and good new friends. I have worked in four schools of this franchise. The studies reference was the BBS ( Bulletin Board Systems ), Books are important, but expensive and rare. At the same period, I gave private classes to executives, teaching Windows and MS Office. |
| Initial Title | Assistant PC Operator |
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| Title | Network administrator |
| Company | Grupo Flor de Lis |
| Period | From 1992 to 1995 |
| Job Description | Data processing, network automation and Novell Netware 3x administration |
| Technology | XT Platform, x86, DOS batch scripts, Windows, Clipper and Novell Netware |
| Some more |