Enrico Alvarenga
Software Engineer III at Electronic Arts (EA)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolEnrico Alvarenga is a Software Engineer III based in Vancouver with a decade of hands-on experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, and scalable backend systems across VoIP, ride-hailing, fintech, and gaming. He specializes in developer enablement—improving productivity through Backstage, Retool, CI/CD, and Terraform—and has driven measurable reliability and onboarding improvements like Backstage caching with Redis and fast scaffolder templates. A practical polyglot (TypeScript, Go, Node.js) who has owned on-call rotations and large infra upgrades, Enrico blends deep technical ownership with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration. He’s an active open-source contributor to Backstage (notably enhancing the Scaffolder plugin), reflecting his commitment to shared developer experiences. Outside of work he channels the discipline from sports like tennis and CrossFit into relentless iteration on processes and tools.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
SenacBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at FEIEnglish ESL ( English as a Second Language), English ESL ( English as a Second Language) at ELS Language Centres, VancouverHigh School High School, High School High School at Colégio Santa Catarina de São PauloExtended Learning Computer Software Engineering, Extended Learning Computer Software Engineering at Impacta Tecnologia
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
backstage10
portal10
react10
typescript9
typescript-types9
developper9
typescripts9
javascript8
cnc7
slim6
nginx6
nodejs6
api6
php6
angularjs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Enrico Alvarenga primarily contributed to the Backstage project by enhancing the Scaffolder plugin. His work involved modifying and extending the `OwnerPicker` and `EntityPicker` components, allowing for filtering of entities using `catalogFilter`. He also deprecated the `allowedKinds` configuration in favor of `catalogFilter` and updated sample templates. Furthermore, Alvarenga made changes to the Search component, enabling configuration via instrumented config and unit testing the new initial state configurations.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
theskynar/semantics-analyzer
Nov 2018 - Jul 2022
CC6270 - Compiladores - Semantics and Code Generation
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
code-generationcompiladoressemantics
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