Fabio Zadrozny
Principal Software Engineer at Brainwy Software
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFabio Zadrozny is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of professional experience and a 16-year track record of commercial work, blending deep Python expertise with a long history of open-source leadership. He founded and maintains widely used projects such as PyDev, PyDev.Debugger (integrated into VSCode, VS and PyCharm), LiClipse and PyVmMonitor, and has contributed to prominent repos like microsoft/debugpy and Aptana Studio, improving debugger stability and editor theming. His career spans scientific visualization and engineering tools, VSCode extension ecosystems, and recent work on customizable AI agents and automation infrastructure. Based in Amsterdam, he combines full‑stack development, debugger internals and IDE UX fluency with a tendency to build durable developer tools that quietly become critical infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (34)
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
python10
pydev10
user-interface10
bytecode-manipulation10
eclipse10
qt9
gevent9
eclipse-plugin9
unit-testing9
django9
jython9
css9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/debugpy
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
An implementation of the Debug Adapter Protocol for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Debugger Specialist
Back-end Developer & Debugger SpecialistContributions:43 reviews, 191 commits, 338 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Fabio primarily focused on debugging and enhancing the `debugpy` debugger, particularly in the context of Python. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to exception handling, improving the handling of source code files, addressing compatibility with Python versions 3.10 and 3.11, and improving the stability of the debugger by addressing issues related to handling threads, bytecode, and socket connections. Additionally, the user worked on improvements for integrating the debugger with popular IDEs and debugging tools such as IPython and Flask by addressing integration issues, and ensuring features like breakpoints and code reloading functioned as expected.
pythondebugadapterdebug-adapter-protocol
aptana/studio3
May 2010 - Oct 2012
This repository contains the code for core components of Aptana Studio 3.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:148 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Fabio refactored the structure of the code to allow the editor to take advantage of the theming and find bar. The user modified the theme-related Java classes and code for colorization and theme selection features of the Aptana Studio editor to enhance the user interface. The changes involved modifying CSS and Javascript, especially the addition of the search functionalities.
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