Alexandre Lara
Full Stack Software Engineer at Ambush
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlexandre Lara is a Full Stack Software Engineer and technical founder with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building scalable web platforms and AI-augmented products. He has led engineering teams at Automattic, contributing front-end improvements to the widely used open-source WooCommerce project, and founded Floou to deliver rapid-growth TypeScript/Next.js systems and agent-driven delivery pipelines. Comfortable across React, Node, TypeScript, and backend systems (Postgres, Mongo, Docker), he pairs pragmatic architecture (Clean/Hexagonal) with test-first practices and DevOps automation. Alexandre is also an experienced mentor who has trained thousands of developers and scaled engineering practices across multicultural, fully remote teams. He blends production-grade AI work—modeling, tooling and LLM-based developer agents—with product-focused delivery that has driven client growth and measurable performance wins. Based in São Paulo, he combines global collaboration skills and deep open-source impact with a habit of squeezing >90% performance gains from critical systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado em Engenharia de Software, Software Engineering, Bacharelado em Engenharia de Software, Software Engineering at Universidade Federal de GoiásPost-graduation, Positive Psychology, Wellness Science and Self-Realization, Post-graduation, Positive Psychology, Wellness Science and Self-Realization at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do SulNanodegree de Desenvolvedor React, Information Technology, Nanodegree de Desenvolvedor React, Information Technology at Udacity BrasilBachelor's Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering at University of OttawaMIT in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, MIT in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence at Instituto Infnet
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
css10
woocommerce10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
html9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:242 reviews, 156 PRs, 251 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to the WooCommerce Blocks project by implementing and modifying various front-end components. Their work included fixing styling issues, enhancing the Product Gallery block by incorporating interactivity API and adding features like the pop-up functionality, as well as enabling keyboard navigation for the thumbnails. The user also worked on adding and modifying blocks such as Add to Cart Form, Product Rating and also on improving overall block functionality.
ecommercewordpresswoocommercephpautomattic
thealexandrelara/vuttr
May 2019 - Nov 2019
A simple repository to store useful tools
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
useful-tools
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