Director of Engineering at American Express
New York, New York
American Express
Senior Software Engineer in Test, Mobile Engineering
October 2016 to December 2016
New York, New York
UNISUL
Technical Support Assistant
March 2006 to June 2006
Tubarão Area, Brazil
American Express
Engineering Manager, Mobile Engineering
December 2016 to July 2019
New York, New York
American Express
Engineering Director, Mobile Engineering
Greater New York City Area
Voxy
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer & Sales Engineer
December 2013 to October 2016
Greater New York City Area
ThoughtWorks
Senior Quality Assurance Consultant
April 2012 to November 2013
Porto Alegre Area, Brazil
DojoTuba (Coding Dojo Meetup Group)
Founder, Organizer & Speaker
June 2011 to April 2012
Tubarão Area, Brazil
UNISUL
Research Assistant
July 2008 to June 2009
Tubarão Area, Brazil
UNISUL
Research Assistant
July 2007 to June 2008
Tubarão Area, Brazil
Databoss
Co-Founder
September 2008 to April 2009
Consult System Informática Ltda
Technical Support
July 2006 to January 2008
Capiravi de Baixo, SC, Brazil
Nexxera Tecnologia e Serviços S.A.
Senior Software Engineer
July 2011 to April 2012
Tubarão Area, Brazil
Nexxera Tecnologia e Serviços S.A.
Software Process Improvement Analyst & Process Team Lead
September 2009 to July 2011
Tubarão Area, Brazil
Nexxera Tecnologia e Serviços S.A.
Project Manager
June 2009 to February 2010
Tubarão Area, Brazil
Nexxera Tecnologia e Serviços S.A.
Software Developer
December 2007 to June 2009
Tubarão Area, Brazil
SENAI/SC - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial
Technician, Fundamentals of Technological Processes.
2003 to 2003
Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Degree Incomplete.
2011 to 2014
Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, B
2006 to 2011
Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Basic Course, Game development
2009 to 2009
Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Sequential Course, Development in Java for Web
2007 to 2008
SENAI/SC - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial
Technician, Computer Networks
2004 to 2005
What company does Thiago Ghisi work for?
Thiago Ghisi works for American Express
What is Thiago Ghisi's role at American Express?
Thiago Ghisi is Senior Software Engineer in Test, Mobile Engineering
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Thiago Ghisi works in the Computer Software industry.
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📖 Summary
Senior Software Engineer in Test, Mobile Engineering @ American Express From October 2016 to December 2016 (3 months) New York, New YorkTechnical Support Assistant @ UNISUL From March 2006 to June 2006 (4 months) Tubarão Area, BrazilEngineering Manager, Mobile Engineering @ American Express From December 2016 to July 2019 (2 years 8 months) New York, New YorkEngineering Director, Mobile Engineering @ American Express Greater New York City AreaSenior Full Stack Software Engineer & Sales Engineer @ Voxy Stack: Python, Django, Bottle, Backbone.js, RequireJS, and CoffeeScript. MongoDB and PostgreSQL. Android and iOS native apps. Extensive use of AWS services (EC2, RDS, EMR..) for the whole infrastructure. Luigi, Hadoop, Pig and Redshift for the Data Pipeline. Other tools: Jenkins, PyCharm, Fabric and PuppetStarted as a QA Engineer with the mission of bringing the best Software Testing, Test Automation/Continuous Integration and Agile practices from ThoughtWorks to Voxy. In less than two weeks in the company, started to be involved in calls with our top partners in Brazil facilitating bilingual meetings and requirements gathering sessions for integrations.- Designed and implemented our CI/CD Pipeline on Jenkins.- Launched Voxy's Engineering Book Club.- Proposed and helped to implement Daily Standups using the WalkTheWall format.- Advocated for more frequent and better-structured Retrospectives as a way to drive our continuous improvement flow- Implemented the culture of Pair Programming, advocated BDD/TDD and Continuous Delivery. - Helped to design and develop our REST API for external integrations/SSO.- Moved from QA to a Full Stack Engineer role while supporting Voxy on a massive transformation with Pivotal Labs in our engineering practices and processes to XP (Extreme Programming) over a period of 9 months.- Helped to build our engineering team in São Paulo. Spent 3 months in Brazil and hired the Lead Engineer.- As a Sales Engineer, I have supported more than 30 partners to integrate successfully with Voxy via our REST API. Including in this list, one of the largest web portals in Latin America, Brazil's largest Private University, and largest Private English School.- Played the DevOps/Backend/Data Engineer role, focusing on solving some of our scalability issues, making our data pipeline more reliable, speeding up our CI test suite, improving our deployment pipeline and production environment monitoring on AWS. From December 2013 to October 2016 (2 years 11 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Quality Assurance Consultant @ ThoughtWorks - Worked with manual and automated functional and performance testing for large Ruby on Rails, Java and Android applications. - Consultancy and software development work for companies from US and Brazil with distributed teams and on-site with the client.On my day-to-day job: Extreme Programming, BDD/Specification by Example, Kanban, Continuous Integration/Deployment/Delivery, Contract Tests and a lot of Pair Programming and automated tests always trying to follow the test pyramid guidelines.Some Tools: Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber, JMeter, Jenkins, RSpec, UIAutomator, rake-jmeter and honeydew. From April 2012 to November 2013 (1 year 8 months) Porto Alegre Area, BrazilFounder, Organizer & Speaker @ DojoTuba (Coding Dojo Meetup Group) Founding member, Organizer and Moderator of this user group about Coding Dojo for Tubarão (Santa Catarina, Brazil) Region.The group meets every two weeks (on Saturday morning) to practice the Coding Dojo and discuss issues such as:- Programming Languages and Paradigms Programming Language;- Test-driven development (TDD) and other engineering practices of Extreme Programming (XP);- Agile;- Workplace;- Design Patterns;- Software Architecture;Take a look at:#DojoTuba Blog: http://dojotuba.wordpress.com#DojoTuba Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/group/dojotuba** My talks - 2011 (pt-br):1) Minha Carreira em TI: Algumas lições aprendidas (Senai - Junho/2011)Link: http://prezi.com/gtaycltthgbr/minha-carreira-em-ti-algumas-licoes-aprendidas/2) Introdução a Testes Automatizados (1º ForkInTuba - Novembro/2011)Link: http://www.slideshare.net/thiagoghisi/introduo-a-testes-automatizados3) Coding kata: Refatorando aplicações web legadas sem medo (1º UnisulTechDay - Novembro/2011)Link: https://gist.github.com/13957074) Formatando o código do seu jeito no Eclipse (1º UnisulTechDay - Novembro/2011)Link: http://prezi.com/pgdjv8sttxw6/formatando-o-codigo-do-seu-jeito-no-eclipse/ From June 2011 to April 2012 (11 months) Tubarão Area, BrazilResearch Assistant @ UNISUL One year research project through the program "PUIC - Programa Unisul de Iniciação Científica":Thiago da Rosa Ghisi. Análise de Redes Sociais Aplicada no Ensino a Distância. 2009. Iniciação Científica. (Graduando em Ciência da Computação) - Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina. Orientador: Rafael Ávila Faraco. Carga horária: 360 horas From July 2008 to June 2009 (1 year) Tubarão Area, BrazilResearch Assistant @ UNISUL One year research project through the program "PUIC - Programa Unisul de Iniciação Científica":Thiago da Rosa Ghisi. Recomendações de Qualidade de Software baseado no modelo CMMi para o Processo da Fábrica de Software Techpeople. 2008. Iniciação Científica. (Graduando em Ciência da Computação) - Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina. Orientador: Rafael Avila Faraco. Carga horária: 360 horas• Link para notícia relacionada: http://portal2.unisul.br/content/jornalunisulhoje/home/integradanoticia.cfm?objectid=4049BFCE-3048-6857-883889BC431A07FA&secao=Pesquisa From July 2007 to June 2008 (1 year) Tubarão Area, BrazilCo-Founder @ Databoss My startup with three partners: Israel Fonseca, Jean Baldessar and Rafael Meyer.- Development and testing Java Web Applications based on frameworks Java Server Faces (JSF) and JBoss Seam with JBoss RichFaces on Tomcat Applications Server.- HTML, CSS, Javascript/AJAX, XHTML, XSTL- Apache ANT Build Tool and CVS/SVN- Persistence with Hibernate / JPA. - Databases: HSQLDB and MySQL. - Unit (TDD), Integration and Acceptance testing with: JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, DBUnit, Mock Objects, FIT and Fitnesse.- Stress testing with: JMeter.- Operating Systems: Linux Ubuntu (Gnome).Our Products developed:- SGA: Web Application for Management Generic Appraisals (In Brazilian Portuguese SGA is "Sistema Gerenciador de Avaliações"). From September 2008 to April 2009 (8 months) Technical Support @ Consult System Informática Ltda Location: Jorge Lacerda Thermoelectric Complex (Tractebel SA) - Capivari de Baixo/SC.- Identification and resolution of problems in operating systems, networks and PC hardware.- Installation, configuration and maintenance of operating systems (Windows and Linux), basic software, LAN networks and PC hardware.- Automation of Network Tasks. From July 2006 to January 2008 (1 year 7 months) Capiravi de Baixo, SC, BrazilSenior Software Engineer @ Nexxera Tecnologia e Serviços S.A. Java Software Engineer and QA in a project with a distributed software partner in Germany.(SOFTPRO). Major project topics: Java, Oracle, Biometric Signatures with Verification (using SOFTPRO APIs), Digital Signature of Eletronic Documents (Security, Digital Certificate, Timestamp, Hash...). From July 2011 to April 2012 (10 months) Tubarão Area, BrazilSoftware Process Improvement Analyst & Process Team Lead @ Nexxera Tecnologia e Serviços S.A. Primary position: SEPG (Software Engineering Process Group) Lead. We were responsible to bring new technologies, methods and tools to the organization.* Responsible for implementation the processes of the MPS.BR (Brazilian Process Improvement Model, CMMI compatible) Level F and CMMI ML2 at Nexxera Techpeople in Tubarão, SC, Brazil: - On December 9 2010, Nexxera Techpeople was successfully evaluated in MPS.BR Level F. (http://www.softex.br/mpsbr/_avaliacoes/avaliacao.asp?id=3323) - On May 27 2011, thanks to our dedicated preparation, Nexxera Techpeople successfully passed in official evaluation CMMI ML2 (SCAMPI Class A). (http://sas.sei.cmu.edu/pars/pars_detail.aspx?a=16355)* Direct activities to improve Techpeople's Software Development Process focused on MPS.BR (Brazilian Process Improvement Model) Level F and CMMI ML2, including: - Process Analyst: Modeled and helped to implement the 6 processes of the MPS.BR maturity level F (GPP, GPR, GRE, GQA, GCO and MED); - Researched and adapted different open-source tools to support the Software Development Process defined. - Product Manager: Managed/Prioritized the backlog of a Internal Java Webapp focused in automated areas of our process that could not be fully automated just using open source tools. - J2EE Software Developer: Responsible for developing some features for our Internal Intranet Webapp) - Trained Project Managers, Quality Assurance (PPQA) and Configuration Manager (CM) for work on the process with open source tools chosen and our Internal apps. - MPS.BR Level F Appraisal (MA-MPS) Team Member. (11-12 Nov and 8-9 Dec 2010) - CMMI ML2 Appraisal Team Member. (23-27 May/2011) From September 2009 to July 2011 (1 year 11 months) Tubarão Area, BrazilProject Manager @ Nexxera Tecnologia e Serviços S.A. Worked as a Project Manager in a project to create an standard API to facilitate the development of J2ME Mobile apps. This project was funded by FINEP (Research and Projects Financing, also known as the Brazilian Innovation Agency).- Responsible for Planning and Project Monitoring and Control;- Responsible for the Management of Project Infrastructure;- Responsible for the preparation of technical reports for accountability FINEP;* Assistant in Project Portfolio Management at Nexxera Techpeople; From June 2009 to February 2010 (9 months) Tubarão Area, BrazilSoftware Developer @ Nexxera Tecnologia e Serviços S.A. - Development and testing with Java SE (importers) and Java EE (web) applications based on frameworks Java Server Faces (JSF) and JBoss Seam with JBoss RichFaces on JBoss Application Server.- HTML, CSS, Javascript/AJAX, XHTML, XSTL- Expertise in Apache ANT Build Tool and CVS/SVN- Persistence with Hibernate / JPA. - EJB 3.0. - Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, HSQLDB and MySQL. - Unit (TDD), Integration and Acceptance testing with: JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, DBUnit, Mock Objects, FIT and Fitnesse.- Performance testing with: JMeter.- Operating Systems: Linux Ubuntu (Gnome) and Slackware (KDE). From December 2007 to June 2009 (1 year 7 months) Tubarão Area, Brazil
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