Ander De Oliveira is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building Linux-centric C/C++ systems for both desktop and embedded platforms. An early Wayland contributor and former Intel graphics developer, he has shipped user- and kernel-mode GPU features and helped modernize Linux graphics stacks. At Mapbox he has focused on core build systems and cross-platform native libraries, contributing to well-known projects like mapbox-gl-native and improving compile-time robustness and platform-specific extension handling. He combines deep low-level expertise with practical delivery experience as a package maintainer and Docker-aware engineer, bridging developer tooling, DevOps, and production graphics code. Based in Helsinki, he holds an MSc in Computer Science from USP and is known for quietly fixing tricky build and platform compatibility issues that unlock larger project progress.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Bsc Computer Science, Bsc Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Paraná
Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in native Android, iOS, macOS, Node.js, and Qt applications, powered by vector tiles and OpenGL
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:33 commits, 26 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ander primarily focused on build system and core library improvements within the mapbox-gl-native repository. Their contributions involved fixing compiler warnings by disabling implicit fallthrough warnings for SQLite3 and running CMake again when source file lists change. The user also refactored vertex array object extension initialization and disabled debugging extensions to handle platform-specific issues. Moreover, they added a build target to check for doxygen documentation coverage.
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 1 month
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
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Ander De Oliveira - Staff Software Engineer (SDE III) at Mapbox