Summary
Baltazar Parra is a Lead Developer with 10 years of experience building scalable, semantically structured JavaScript front-ends and guiding cross-cultural engineering teams. He’s moved from hands-on engineering—rewriting component libraries and building design systems—to leading delivery and people strategy at companies across Brazil, Switzerland, Turkey, and Bangladesh. Known for blending architecture thinking with practical UX and CSS expertise, he has driven micro-frontend and design-system initiatives as well as high-performance data scraping projects. At Tanto he combined hiring, budgeting and close alignment with founders and finance to ensure technical work directly advanced business outcomes. Now at Thoughtworks, he continues to focus on sustainable, functional JavaScript architectures while coaching teams to ship reliably. Outside day-to-day delivery he brings a strong background in responsive design, information architecture and continuous upskilling through targeted courses.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Arquitetura da informação e projeto de sistemas, Arquitetura da informação e projeto de sistemas at TIMtec
Técnologo, Design para Web, Técnologo, Design para Web at Centro Paula Souza
Nanodegree, Desenvolvedor Web Front-End, Nanodegree, Desenvolvedor Web Front-End at Udacity
Curso para Especialização em Design Responsivo., Curso para Especialização em Design Responsivo. at Origamid
Codeshool
TDD, boas práticas e ES6, TDD, boas práticas e ES6 at Willian Justen - Teachable
Curso para Atualização e Reciclagem., Curso para Atualização e Reciclagem. at Codecademy
Arquitetura CSS, Arquitetura CSS at Afonso Pacifer - Teachable
Curso - Javascript Ninja, Curso - Javascript Ninja at Da2k Treinamentos
The CSS Layout Workshop, The CSS Layout Workshop at Rachel Andrews
English