Adolfo Brandes
Principal Engineer at The Center for Reimagining Learning
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolAdolfo Brandes is a Principal Engineer and two-decade open-source veteran specializing in scalable web platforms for education, currently advancing Open edX at The Center for Reimagining Learning. He founded Bananasoft to provide remote consulting and has a track record of improving reliability and performance across complex stacks—from Asterisk and OpenStack/Ceph to Python/Django-based LMS backends. Known for shipping pragmatic, “do it right the first time” solutions, he has authored training, led community education programs like Upstream University, and presented at major conferences including OSCON and the Open edX Conference. His contributions to the widely used openedx/edx-platform include backend performance fixes, blockstore caching, and micro-frontend integrations, reflecting both deep systems skill and an eye for developer experience. Fluent in English and Brazilian Portuguese and based in São Paulo, he blends hands-on engineering with community leadership and a knack for helping teams and tools scale.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Escola Americana do Rio de JaneiroIncomplete BS Computer Science, Incomplete BS Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (9)
backend10
data-service10
python10
webservice10
django10
caching9
microfrontend8
cors7
javascript6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
May 2020 - Feb 2022
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 reviews, 9 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Adolfo primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the Open edX platform's backend. They optimized the blockstore cache by addressing a bug and introducing caching for draft files. Furthermore, they added a new library authoring MFE toggle, integrated an MFE URL, and fixed an issue with the commons.js URL for the micro-frontend environment. Lastly, they cleaned up CORS-related settings and resolved an infinite resizing loop issue related to iframes within the CMS.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
arbrandes/edx-configuration
Oct 2015 - Aug 2021
a simple, but flexible, way for anyone to stand up an instance of the edX platform that is fully configured and ready-to-go
Contributions:1528 pushes, 305 branches, 7 comments in 5 years 11 months
standedxstand-upedx-platformflexible
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