Eliakin Costa
Tech Leader at Jusbrasil
Bahia, Brazil
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Top SchoolEliakin Costa is a tech leader and software engineer with over a decade of experience building backend and full-stack systems across startups and large platforms in Brazil. Currently leading engineering at Jusbrasil, he combines hands-on development in Python, C++ and Qt with team leadership and delivery of scalable services. A long-time KDE contributor since 2016, he has significantly extended Krita’s Python scripting API and revamped its Scripter plugin—work that improved automation for digital artists in a widely used open-source painting app. His background spans systems integration, DBaaS and cloud-native services at companies like Globo.com and Olist, with practical experience in Kafka, Redis, AWS and PostgreSQL. He brings a rare mix of GUI/desktop expertise and backend systems engineering, and a knack for making repetitive workflows scriptable for non-developers. Based in Bahia, Brazil, he pairs community-driven open-source contributions with proven production delivery.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Analysis and development of systems Ciência da Computação, Analysis and development of systems Ciência da Computação at IFBA - Instituto Federal da Bahia
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Github Skills (12)
plugin-development10
front-end-development10
python10
scripting10
qt9
html6
django-models6
django-filter6
pyqt6
django-forms6
placeholder6
django6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/krita
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018
Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:86 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Eliakin primarily contributed to the Krita project's Python scripting API, focusing on extending its functionality and improving the user interface for scripting tools. They implemented new methods and properties for the Action class, enabling Python scripting to interact with Krita's actions. The user also revamped the Scripter plugin, introducing a dynamic form and improved script execution using importlib, including improvements to clear output functionality. Furthermore, they contributed to several plugins including color space, canvas size, filter manager and ten scripts.
artend-to-enddigital-artlinuxgui
EliakinCosta/QtScraper
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:1 review, 85 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
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