Senior Software Engineer

Ruby on Rails Developer & Healthcare AI Engineer

15+ years building SaaS platforms, LLM integrations, and voice AI systems. Available as a fractional software engineer or Rails consultant for your next project.

Open to new collaborations

Senior Software Engineer

Hire a Ruby on Rails Developer & AI Engineer, On-Demand

Ship production-ready features faster. From Ruby on Rails API development to custom LLM integrations — get a contract software engineer without the overhead of a full-time hire. SaaS development services you can pause or cancel anytime.

Open to new collaborations
Newton Garcia - Software Engineer

Companies I've worked with

Wendi
HuntClub
Action Network
CrazyEgg
Envato
Pressed
ReferralCandy
Neat

Recommendations

What I Do

Services

01

Backend Engineering

Scalable Ruby on Rails API development, microservices architecture, and robust backend systems. Available as a freelance Rails developer or fractional software engineer for contract engagements.

02

AI & Voice Systems

LLM integration services, voice AI integration, and conversational pipelines — from speech-to-text to text-to-speech. Specializing as a healthcare AI developer for enterprise and clinical applications.

03

SaaS Development

End-to-end SaaS development services — from database design and billing to real-time features. Hire a Rails SaaS developer for production-grade product builds.

Pricing

Service Plans

Access senior-level engineering on demand. Scale your development without the overhead of a full-time hire. Pause or cancel anytime.

Standard

$4995 /mo

Perfect for getting started with dedicated engineering support.

  • One request at a time
  • Average 48-hour delivery
  • Unlimited revisions
  • Ruby on Rails & backend
  • Frontend & API development
  • Async communication
  • Pause or cancel anytime
Most Popular

Pro

$7995 /mo

For teams that need dedicated senior engineering on an ongoing basis.

  • Two requests at a time
  • Average 48-hour delivery
  • Unlimited revisions
  • Full-stack development
  • AI & voice integrations
  • Architecture & code reviews
  • Direct Slack/video access
  • Pause or cancel anytime

Custom

Let's Talk

Tailored solutions for enterprise needs. Let's discuss your requirements.

  • Custom request volume
  • Priority delivery
  • Unlimited revisions
  • Team embedding option
  • Dedicated Slack channel
  • Weekly strategy calls
  • Custom contract terms
  • Full-stack + AI/ML scope

Not sure which plan fits? Book a 15-minute discovery call to discuss your needs.

Career

Work

Full CV →

Organizations I've partnered with as a software engineer, contributing to real products, production systems, and long-term technical foundations.

Action Network

Action Network

Current
2018 —

Core Ruby on Rails developer and backend engineer on Action Builder, a new organizing CRM product. Designed and implemented GraphQL schema powering relationship mapping, network visualization, and organizer workflows as a contract software engineer.

New York City, United States · Remote · Contract
Ruby on Rails GraphQL AngularJS PostgreSQL
Wendi

Wendi

2023 — 2025

Led development of a healthcare AI voice assistant platform as a contract software engineer. Built automated patient intake, insurance verification, and multichannel conversations using LLM integration services. Architected end-to-end patient workflow engine and real-time conversational AI pipelines.

New York City, United States · Remote · Contract
Ruby on Rails Python React AWS AI/ML APIs WebSockets
HuntClub

HuntClub

2022

Developed and shipped features for a talent-matching platform used by thousands of recruiters and hiring managers. Built full-stack features improving recruiter workflows and candidate pipeline management.

Chicago, United States · Remote · Contract
Ruby on Rails React
The Neat Company

The Neat Company

2020 - 2022

Built and maintained backend microservices for Neat's core platform, led a 3-month Rails upgrade across multiple major versions on a legacy application, and coordinated development with other engineers to modernize and support the company's backend services.

Philadelphia, United States · Remote · Contract
Ruby on Rails Node.js TypeScript Microservices
CrazyEgg

CrazyEgg

2019

Re-architected signup flow and ran 12 A/B tests, lifting conversion rates. Integrated Elasticsearch into analytics dashboard, cutting load time from 4s to 800ms. Built Shopify Kit Skills integration increasing retention rates.

Cerritos, United States · Remote · Contract
Ruby on Rails Elasticsearch A/B Testing AWS (S3 Kinesis Lambda) Kafka Docker
Envato

Envato

2017 — 2018

Built and improved a managed WordPress hosting platform with multi-service architecture. Designed and implemented automated WordPress backup system for thousands of hosted sites.

Melbourne, Australia · Remote · Contract
Ruby on Rails AWS WordPress
Pressed

Pressed

2016 — 2017

Founding engineer on a greenfield WordPress hosting platform. Built the entire stack from scratch using Ruby on Rails on AWS, including site provisioning, DNS configuration, and SSL management.

New York City, United States · Remote · Contract
Ruby on Rails AWS (EC2 Route 53 S3 SQS)
ReferralCandy

ReferralCandy

2015 — 2016

Shipped product features and streamlined e-commerce platform integrations for a referral marketing SaaS serving thousands of merchants.

Singapore, Singapore · On-site · Contract
Ruby on Rails Shopify Magento WooCommerce
Site5

Site5

2015

Built internal CRM and client-facing management tools, a white-label managed WordPress product, and custom automation tooling for staff operations.

Dallas, United States · Remote · Contract
Ruby on Rails Python AWS
WWWH

WWWH

2015

Built internal CRM and client-facing management tools, a white-label managed WordPress product, and custom automation tooling for staff operations.

Goiânia, Brazil · Remote · Contract
Ruby on Rails Python AWS
Critsend

Critsend

2012 — 2013

Built a next-generation email deliverability platform in Python and maintained a distributed transactional email service handling high-volume sends. Developed a server reputation monitoring module (blacklist tracker) and a billing application for the new product line.

San Francisco, United States · Remote · Contract
Python Distributed Systems Email Infrastructure

Impact

Results That Matter

AI

Real-time conversational voice pipelines

Wendi

100K+

Students monitored in engagement system

State Gov

41K+

Registered users on marketplace

Maior Desconto

30K

Monthly payouts processed

State Gov

5%

Increase retention via Shopify integration

CrazyEgg

17K

Paying customers on e-commerce platform

Maior Desconto

15+

Years of Experience

Building production systems

10+

Companies

From startups to enterprises

100K+

Users Served

Across platforms built

45

Countries Visited

Global perspective

About

Newton Garcia

Ruby on Rails developer and contract software engineer with 15+ years of experience. Most recently worked as a healthcare AI developer, leading the development of a voice AI integration platform for patient intake and clinical workflows. Built the platform from scratch, including LLM integration services, backend systems, and connections to EHR-related tools.

Available as a freelance Rails developer or fractional software engineer. Background across SaaS development, e-commerce, and cloud platforms, with a strong focus on Ruby on Rails consulting, API development, and production reliability.

Founded two companies — including a Rails SaaS marketplace that generated over $700K in sales — and contributed to open-source projects like graphql-ruby.

Languages

Portuguese, English, Spanish

Traveled

45 countries →

Status

Available

Stack

Technical Skills

Languages

01
Ruby Python JavaScript TypeScript Elixir Rust R

Backend & APIs

02
Ruby on Rails NodeJS REST APIs GraphQL WebSockets Background Processing Sidekiq Kafka

Frontend

03
Turbo/Hotwire React Tailwind CSS Stimulus

Data & Search

04
PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Elasticsearch Vector Databases (pgvector Pinecone)

Infrastructure

05
AWS (Lambda S3 RDS CloudWatch) Docker Kamal Ansible Terraform Heroku CI/CD

Observability

06
Datadog New Relic Sentry Logtail Error Monitoring Performance Monitoring

AI & Voice

07
LLM Integrations Conversational AI RAG Speech-to-Text Text-to-Speech LangChain OpenAI Prompt Engineering

Contact

Let's build
something great.

I'm always open to discussing interesting projects and future partnerships

Email

n@newx.sh

Phone

+55 62 98163-1780