Business development

Technologies used: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Apache Solr, Javascript, Twitter Boostrap and various ruby gems. 
Started Development in 2015.
Mobile ready.

NatVim is an international vertical search engine, made using the Ruby on Rails framework in early 2015, for natural and alternative treatments to diseases, mainly based on herbs and medicinal plants. It also indexes content from internet on related topics.

Initially, the most supported country is Brazil and the Portuguese language. Update: English, Spanish and French languages are getting increasingly supported.

From the website: "NatVim stands for Natural Vim. NatVim functions as a vertical search engine for natural and alternative treatments for diseases, healthy recipes and other articles. Besides indexing content from all over the internet, it also allows the collaborative creation of treatments, recipes and articles by therapists and health professionals as well as other NatVim users all around the world."

For more information, check: natvim.com and produtos-naturais.natvim.com

Technologies used: PHP, Drupal, Apache solr, and various Drupal modules
Started development in 2008.

Imohoo was a vertical search engine for real estate properties in Brazil, made using the Drupal platform and modules.

It had crawling capabilities as well as XML integration to third-party real estate software, developed as customized drupal modules in PHP. This crawling and integration routines were run in background every day for indexing properties in the Imohoo search with Apache solr.
 

The web portal achieved almost 1 million page views/month by April 2011.
I was involved in the overall development process: crawler of websites, interface design, server administration, SEO, marketing, and integration to other services.