Carlos Brando
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Carlos Brando (carlosbrando) is hooked on programming and currently Senior Rails Engineer at Powershop. He has been developing software for over fourteen years, starting out in Visual Basic and moving on to C, C++, Java, C#, Erlang and now Ruby and Go. He has worked for a number of companies, including Portugal Telecom Group, AT&T Latin America, DirecTV, SKY, VISA, Surgeworks, Plano Bê and Enjoei.
Carlos has one of the best-known Rails blogs in Brazil. He is active in the Brazilian Rails community and participates in several open source projects. He has presented at various Ruby-related events in Brazil, including two editions of RubyConf Brasil and two Rails Summit Latin America. He also wrote the first two books about Rails 2.1 and 2.2, and he led the translation of the “Why’s Poingnant Guide to Ruby” into Portuguese.
He’s also responsible for the Grok Podcast, a weekly podcast about programming, entrepreneurship at a higher level.