Matheus Fernandes is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently driving platform and product engineering at Vercel from the Netherlands. He’s a full‑stack engineer who blends front-end polish with systems-level fixes—contributing to Vercel’s build, DNS and billing features while improving cross-platform behavior and CI/CD integrations. An active open-source contributor, his work spans high-profile projects like the Hyper terminal and Vercel’s repo as well as macOS-focused tools like Aperture and Kap where he shipped screen-recording features and UI improvements. He also demonstrates curiosity for reverse-engineering and protocol work, having implemented Google Translate’s tk parameter generation, which highlights his ability to solve both UX and authentication challenges.
A free and unlimited API for Google Translate :dollar::no_entry_sign:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:13 releases, 49 commits, 35 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Matheus primarily focused on developing and refactoring the core functionality of the Google Translate API. They implemented the `tk` parameter generation logic, crucial for authenticating requests. The user also refactored the API to use promises and incorporate features like auto-correction of language and spelling. Moreover, the user enhanced the project with comprehensive testing and code style enforcement.
An open-source screen recorder built with web technology
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:15 releases, 1 review, 401 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matheus focused on developing the user interface for a screen recording application. They implemented features to start and stop recording, display and control the size of a video thumbnail, and added an export functionality. The user also incorporated settings for configuring video parameters like frame rate, enabled user interaction with the header for window dragging, and created a preference panel. They primarily worked with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including the `aperture.js` library, and incorporated features for a better user experience.
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