Alan Sikora
Chief Technology Officer at Lumenalta (formerly Clevertech)
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlan Sikora is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building and scaling software products and teams from Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul. He combines executive leadership at TechFX—streamlining cross-border payments for tech professionals—with hands-on architecture skills honed as a senior software architect at Lumenalta and founder roles at multiple agencies. Alan has deep backend expertise demonstrated by notable open-source work on Rocket.Chat, where he implemented RFC2813-based IRC federation to bridge legacy chat networks and modern platforms. Comfortable moving between strategy and core engineering, he focuses on secure, practical integrations and developer-friendly systems. His background reflects both entrepreneurial grit and a track record of turning complex interoperability challenges into production-ready solutions.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
SisnemaPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
chat10
javascript10
irc10
meteor10
realtime9
collaboration8
xcode6
nvm6
interface-builder6
nodejs6
drizzle6
bash6
webrtc6
autolayout6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Jun 2018 - Jul 2022
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 88 commits, 51 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on implementing an IRC Federation feature within the Rocket.Chat platform. Their work involved implementing the RFC2813 standard using ngIRCd, enabling communication between Rocket.Chat and IRC users. They contributed significantly to the core functionality, including direct messaging, room synchronization, and server connection configuration. The user also addressed linting issues and refined the codebase.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
Cgruppo/Rocket.Chat
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Have your own Slack like online chat, built with Meteor.
Contributions:19 commits in 4 months
meteoronline-chatchatslackmattermost
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