Alan Souza
Founder & CEO at Klipp
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Souza is a product-minded engineering leader and founder with 12+ years building design-driven web experiences and design systems, including co-founding the open-source Grommet UI framework. He blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship in TypeScript, React, and Node with product and company building—having launched consumer-facing The Retirement Tracker and now leading Klipp, an AI music-practice platform. His career spans senior roles at Netflix and Airbnb where he guided UI development and helped implement internal design systems, reflecting a strong accessibility and usability focus. Known for shipping pragmatic refactors and accessibility fixes in Grommet (buttons, layers, select, tabs, custom icons), he favors clean, modular interfaces that scale across teams. Based in Orlando, he pairs technical leadership with a designer’s sensibility and an unexpected passion for Brazilian Samba and Forró that informs his collaborative, creative approach.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Ruy Barbosa College (Devry University)Master's degree, Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration, Master's degree, Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (15)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
grommet10
react10
twitter-bootstrap9
react-router9
html9
accessibility9
babeljs6
nodejs6
dom-events6
scroll6
angularjs-directive6
angularjs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
grommet/grommet
Mar 2015 - Oct 2021
a react-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:64 releases, 5 reviews, 1684 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alan made several contributions related to front-end development within the Grommet framework. The user addressed issues with the Button component, added support for the icon and its color, fixed accessibility problems with the layer and select components. The user also refactored the tabs, and added support for custom icons.
accessibilityreactgrommetjavascriptux-framework
grommet/grommet-toolbox
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
[DEPRECATED] Developer Environment for Grommet applications
Contributions:27 releases, 107 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 2 months
grommet
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