Beder Acosta Borges · beder.dev

How I work

Every engagement starts with listening. The stated problem is rarely the real one, and the first job is to find the pain point that actually matters, before any code is written.

Then we build together. I work with your people, not around them: decisions explained, trade-offs on the table, knowledge transferred as we go, not at the end.

The deliverable is always one you fully own. My measure of success is that you don't need me afterwards: systems your team can run, extend, and change on their own.

Empowerment, never dependency.

What I do

Custom software: Product development from idea to production: scoping, architecture, iterative delivery, and the unglamorous parts (testing, deployment, maintenance) that make software dependable.
Full-stack platform work: Web applications end to end: interfaces people actually use, back ends that stay reliable as usage grows, and the delivery pipeline between them.
Data and automation: Replacing manual, error-prone workflows: integrations between the systems you already use, data pipelines, and reports people can trust.

Selected work

Three engagements, told honestly. Client names withheld, numbers real.

From Word documents to an offer-to-order pipeline

Client: An SMB reselling enterprise engineering software (Siemens Teamcenter, NX, and Solid Edge).
Problem: Every salesperson assembled offers by hand in Word and emailed them out, with no standard process, no pricing consistency, and no trail.
What I did: Designed and built a web application (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis) that pulled products, pricing, clients, and contacts live from the company's CMS. Sales composed offers from real data instead of retyping it, tuned pricing within company discount parameters, versioned and sent offers, and tracked their status. Accepted offers were screened internally and became orders in the ERP automatically.
Outcome: The entire sales team moved onto the system, the offer lifecycle was standardized end to end, and manual-input errors disappeared. I began this system as an employee and kept evolving it for a year afterwards as an independent consultant, then handed it over entirely. The client still runs it without me, which is the point.

Royalties without spreadsheets

Client: A small publisher of music-teaching books for children.
Problem: Sales flowed in from two WooCommerce stores, Amazon, and physical print runs, and were reconciled by hand: reports downloaded manually, stitched together in Excel, and royalties calculated author by author.
What I did: Built an Airtable-based automation that pulls WooCommerce sales every hour, ingests Amazon and print-shop reports, and computes sales and per-author royalties.
Outcome: Manual data-entry errors went to zero, and time spent on sales and royalty reporting dropped by roughly 80%.

A computer-vision pilot for eyewear market trends

Client: One of the world's largest eyewear companies.
Problem: No systematic visibility into visual market trends: which shapes, colors, and materials were actually gaining ground.
What I did: Built a proof-of-concept that collected eyewear imagery from social networks, brand sites, and specialist e-commerce; trained vision models, each specialized in one product feature (temple height, bridge shape, color, material), and composed them into a workflow that classified products, produced trend reports, and matched trends against the client's own catalog.
Outcome: The pilot proved the approach worked. The client chose not to fund a production phase. An honest result, and a cheap one: that's what pilots are for.

About

beder.dev is the consulting practice of Beder Acosta Borges. Since 1998 I've designed and built B2B software across finance, energy, manufacturing, publishing, e-commerce, and payments, as an engineer, an architect, and a leader of distributed teams. beder.dev has been how I work with clients since 2015.

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