
Rodrigo Barreto
Senior Full-Stack EngineerRuby on RailsFounder at Mentorflow
📍 Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹
Working with technology since 2011, I love building web applications with Ruby on Rails, writing blog posts about software development, sports, and participating in and creating workshops. Connect with me on LinkedIn to follow my journey.
Currently.
Right now I'm building features at Workwize, focusing on backend architecture and performance optimization.
When I'm Not Coding.
Outside of tech, I train Jiu-Jitsu regularly and enjoy staying active.
Mentorflow - Founder
Full-stack SaaS platform for instructors and training studios (martial arts, languages, fitness) launched as a side project. Worked full-time for 5 months to build the MVP, which organically grew to serve 10 invite-only clients with 1,500+ active users.
Built multi-tenant architecture with Ruby on Rails backend, React web app, and React Native mobile apps for iOS/Android. Integrated Stripe for subscription billing, Zoom SDK for virtual classes, and leveraged OpenAI API for AI-powered features like lesson planning and student recommendations.
Currently maintained on weekends only, with deployment on AWS infrastructure using S3 for file storage, CloudFront for content delivery, and Redis for caching.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Software Engineering
Pontifical Catholic University (PUC), 2024 - 2025
Focus on full-stack MVP development, software architecture, agile project management, and software quality assurance using Python, FastAPI and React.
Bachelor of Information Systems
University of Salgado de Oliveira, 2010 - 2014
Recent Courses
- •Complete Intro to Containers, v2 (Frontend Masters)
- •Complete Intro to React, v9 (Frontend Masters) - React 18/19 modern APIs
- •Ruby on Rails (Pragmatic Studio) - Full-stack Rails development
