Ana Costa
Senior Frontend Engineer at Mercedes-Benz.io
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolAna Costa is a user-centric Frontend Engineer based in Lisbon with nine years of experience blending visual design and modern frontend engineering to build web products that people love. She started as a web and graphic designer, holds a master's in Visual Culture Theory, and has repeatedly translated customer value into clear product specifications while leading end-to-end development as a co-founder and freelancer. At Read the Docs she shipped UX and theme fixes that contributed to the Sphinx RTD Theme 1.0 release and improved documentation clarity, and she now applies that polish at Mercedes‑Benz.io as a Senior Frontend Engineer. Known for breaking complex problems into actionable components, Ana pairs strong user empathy with engineering discipline to raise development efficiency and deliver measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Visual Culture Theory, Master's degree, Visual Culture Theory at IADE
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
restructuredtext10
sphinx10
css10
html10
documentation10
sphinx-doc9
google-chrome9
sphinxsearch9
jinjava8
selector6
hyperlink6
php6
wordpress6
layout6
jquery6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Sphinx theme from Read the Docs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 32 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ana primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the project, as indicated by the code changes within the theme's CSS files and HTML templates. Their work involved adding and modifying CSS rules, adding space chars and correcting the syntax of Jinja template. Their contributions focused on layout adjustments, addressing spacing issues, and improving the presentation of the theme.
pythonsphinx-extensionsphinx-themesphinxsphinx-doc
readthedocs/readthedocs.org
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
The source code that powers readthedocs.org
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 reviews, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ana's contributions primarily involved documentation and minor UI adjustments within the Read the Docs project. They updated the documentation by changing instances of "right-click" to "click," added custom CSS for image styling, and incorporated cross-references and custom classes to improve clarity. Additionally, the user fixed end-of-file formatting issues. The changes indicate a focus on refining the project's documentation and visual presentation.
mkdocspythonpowerssphinxsphinx-doc
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