Eduardo Costa is an engineering team lead and front-end specialist with nine years of experience building and modernizing JavaScript and React-based systems across global teams. He excels at driving production stability and developer growth—currently leading a KTLO team at Deel that covers US timezones and resolves high-impact payroll and compliance incidents. Eduardo has a strong track record in design systems and code health, contributing to Pinterest’s Gestalt by removing legacy components and improving documentation examples. He pairs practical backend and architecture knowledge with hands-on automation and microfrontend patterns learned at XP Inc. and Softplan, and is expanding into Android and C# for games, reflecting a blend of product-focused frontend craft and platform curiosity. Outside work he channels creativity into dance, drawing and acoustic guitar, which he credits with keeping his problem-solving fresh.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico em Eletrônica Tecnologia em Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica, Técnico em Eletrônica Tecnologia em Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica at IFPE - Campus Recife
Jogos Digitais Computer Games and Programming Skills, Jogos Digitais Computer Games and Programming Skills at Faculdade Méliès
Licenciatura em Computação Tecnologia da Informação, Licenciatura em Computação Tecnologia da Informação at Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
START Designer Gráfico, START Designer Gráfico at SAGA - Recife
Finanças Pessoais Finanças, Finanças Pessoais Finanças at SENAI - PE
Master Interface Designer Designer UX/UI, Master Interface Designer Designer UX/UI at Choco la Design
A set of React UI components that supports Pinterest’s design language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:89 reviews, 14 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Eduardo primarily contributed to the development of React UI components within the Pinterest Gestalt design system. Their work focused on removing deprecated components like `Typeahead` and `AvatarPair`, and updating components, such as `TextField`, `Heading`, and `Text`, by removing deprecated props and features. The user also added and modified code examples in documentation and implemented Sandpack code editor examples for Button.
Contributions:11 reviews, 74 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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