Andre Pena
Staff Frontend Software Engineer at Proofpoint
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndre Pena is a Staff Frontend Software Engineer with 14 years building large-scale web platforms, currently shaping email security UIs in London after leading frontend work at Tessian and Zalando. He specializes in TypeScript, React, Node.js and GraphQL and has real-world experience implementing micro-frontend architectures that migrated large portions of Zalando onto a shared platform. His background as a Software Architect at Thomson Reuters includes leading releases of LegalOne across Latin America and Iberia, blending product-oriented thinking with architectural rigor. He contributes to notable open-source work — his react-mde Markdown editor is a popular React project — and stays active helping others on Stack Overflow. Certified in web and Microsoft technologies, he pairs frontend craftsmanship with a grounding in .NET and backend systems from earlier roles. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who enjoys untangling complex UI problems and shipping resilient developer-friendly components.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Sciencie, Computer Sciencie at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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363answers
289questions
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Github Skills (32)
markdown10
javascript10
typescript10
mochajs10
entity-framework10
markdown-it10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
dll9
sc9
python9
gruntjs9
regex9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
andrerpena/react-mde
Nov 2016 - Aug 2022
📝 React Markdown Editor
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 releases, 6 reviews, 665 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Andre contributed to the development of the React Markdown Editor by implementing features and fixing bugs. The commits show the implementation of various UI components for the toolbar, along with changes in styling, and functionalities such as bold, italic, and strikethrough. Further implementations include the ability to insert links, quotes, and images, along with creating features for the mentions dropdown.
reactjavascripttypescripteditormarkdown
andrerpena/remoted
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Source code for remoted.io. Remoted is an aggregator for remote jobs for IT professionals (software engineering, database, cloud, security...).
Contributions:284 commits, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 10 months
securitycloud-databaseengineeringdatabasecloud-security
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