Social Impact · May/2014 — Dec/2017
Pastoral da Criança
Legacy PHP social platform for child health support
- Role
- Junior PHP Developer
- Year
- May/2014 — Dec/2017
- Stack
- PHPZend Framework 1MySQLLegacy Systems

Overview
Worked on a legacy platform responsible for managing and monitoring approximately 1.5 million children aged 0 to 6 across 22 countries supported by the organization.
- Generated reports for institutions such as the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Health
- Supported indicators used to identify child malnutrition risk
- Enabled guidance workflows for mothers in socially vulnerable contexts
Architecture
Legacy PHP monolith on Zend Framework 1 with MySQL, supporting large-scale social data collection, consolidation, and reporting workflows.
Challenges and solutions
Evolution over a critical legacy foundation
We delivered incremental improvements on Zend Framework 1 while preserving stability in a sensitive, high social-impact operation.
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