Daniel Lacaz Ruiz

Senior full-stack software developer.

I build greenfield SaaS for fast-moving startup teams across borders and own it end to end: multi-tenant architecture, payments and fiscal infrastructure, production LLM integration, and the performance work that keeps it fast at scale. Six years in, most recently taking a contracted product from zero to production in six months as one of two core engineers.

French, Canadian & Brazilian citizen · UTC−3, available for overlap with US East and West, plus Western Europe · native English, French & Portuguese, professional Spanish.

Available for contract engagements and full-time roles


Selected work

01

January to June 2026

Contract for PubliSend

Core engineer

ZunaChat

A multi-tenant omnichannel customer-communication SaaS, taken from zero to production in six months as one of two core engineers. Built a drag-and-drop visual automation builder (~19 action types) that lets non-technical operators orchestrate WhatsApp and Instagram workflows, unified the Meta and Evolution APIs behind a single real-time inbox, and added OpenAI- and Gemini-powered auto-reply agents.

6 mo

zero to production, 780+ tests

Django 6 Nuxt 4 Celery / Redis / Channels async-first AWS

02

Launching 2026

Core full-stack engineer

PulsoTech

A multi-tenant gym-operations SaaS, built as the sole engineer alongside a domain-expert partner. Built the operator platform (unified CRM, scheduling and check-ins, contracts, NPS, audit-trailed staff impersonation) on async-first infrastructure: Celery jobs off the request path, results streamed over Django Channels WebSockets. Added owner-facing revenue intelligence: real-time MRR, churn and LTV dashboards with forecasts, plus a daily scorer that flags cooling sales opportunities and recommends a next action. Built the companion React Native / Expo app as one role-aware binary for members and staff, with an offline-first workout player that survives app kills and syncs idempotently on reconnect.

33

modules, 600+ models, built solo

Django Nuxt 4 Celery / Redis / Channels React Native / Expo async-first

03

June 2026 to present

Client engagement · Lead: ML, mobile & web

Aligna

A posture and body-symmetry tracker that reads a single back-view photo. Trained a keypoint model that places eight body landmarks (neck, shoulders, waist, hips, pelvis) and derives shoulder and hip level, trunk tilt, and waist asymmetry, then tracks them over time. Built the whole pipeline end to end, from weak auto-labeling and background randomization through training, quantization, and both runtimes. Portuguese-first, accessibility-tuned, and deliberately non-diagnostic: it reports neutral observations, never a verdict.

0

photos leave the device: inference is fully local, so it is LGPD-compliant by design

TensorFlow MobileNetV3-Small TFLite (int8) TF.js (float16) Expo / React Native Cloudflare Workers

04

2023 to 2025

Core full-stack engineer

1,400+ commits · 300+ unit specs

Pivott VMS

Core engineer on a multi-tenant vendor- and contract-management platform for property managers, built zero-to-production over 18 months as one of its most active contributors. Owned the spend-management module end to end and a reminders engine tied to contract and compliance dates (auto-created, recalculated on change, delivered over email and Slack) that became a core retention driver. Built SSO and audit logging.

~15

enterprise property-management clients, each managing thousands of contracts

Django REST Nuxt 3 / Vuetify PostgreSQL

05

2020 to 2023

Software engineer

Noki Systems

Independently shipped the company's flagship mobile app (React, Ionic / Capacitor) end to end, including in-app auto-update, along with the Django REST API behind it. Integrated Stripe recurring payments and Twilio OTP / SMS, and built admin dashboards for user management, revenue, and IoT-hardware oversight.

300+

organizations across North America

React Ionic / Capacitor Django REST Stripe Twilio

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“I had the opportunity to work with him and can confidently say he is an outstanding professional. He is highly skilled, reliable, and always committed to delivering high-quality results. Beyond his technical expertise, he communicates clearly, takes ownership of his work, and consistently looks for the best solution to every challenge.”
Luiz Gindro · CTO, PubliSend LinkedIn recommendation, July 2026 · managed Daniel directly
“Daniel is a very dedicated and innovative individual who has proven eagerness and ability to learn. During his tenure with Noki Systems, he has proven his ability to learn on the go and implement features critical to the product.”
Malik Jahanzaib · Software Lead, Noki Systems LinkedIn recommendation, March 2023 · managed Daniel directly

About
Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL
Backend
Django, Django REST, Celery, Redis, Channels, PostgreSQL
Frontend
Vue, Nuxt, React, Ionic / Capacitor, Vuetify
Infrastructure
AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Cloudflare Workers
Also
LLM integration (OpenAI, Gemini), payments (Stripe, PIX, boleto), TensorFlow

B.Sc. (Honours) in Biology from McMaster University, with a bioinformatics research background that produced published work on low-complexity sequence motifs in untranslated regions and on gene correlation across breast-cancer subtypes.

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