Felipe Da S Sanches
Code Contributor (volunteer) at FontBakery / Fontspector, TruFont and Metapolator
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Da S Sanches is a seasoned libre-software developer and hardware designer with 18 years of experience, based in São Paulo, Brazil. He blends embedded systems and firmware work with font engineering and tooling—maintaining FontBakery used by Google Fonts and contributing to Google Fonts and font quality projects. Felipe is also an active preservationist and emulator contributor to MAME, having restored Brazil’s first computer, Patinho Feio, and digitized archival media. His background spans open hardware (MOD Duo, Metamáquina), reverse-engineered CAD support (GNU LibreDWG), and community coordination from founding Garoa Hacker Clube to international multistakeholder work. Known for pragmatic engineering across Python, C/C++ and electronics, he brings a rare mix of historical-archival passion and production-quality tooling for designers and makers.
18 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Colégio Bandeirantesdropout, electrical engineering with emphasis on telecommunications, dropout, electrical engineering with emphasis on telecommunications at Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (23)
github-ci10
fonts10
python10
scripting10
testing10
firmware10
bash10
fonttools10
script10
sh10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
arduino10
typography10
c-language9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
fonttools/fontbakery
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
🧁 A font quality assurance tool for everyone
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 243 reviews, 2999 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Felipe contributed to the fontbakery project by implementing features related to quality assurance for fonts. Their work included adding functionality for detecting and reporting issues with font files, such as identifying unwanted tables, incorrect axis values, and invalid glyph constructions. These changes involved modifying existing code in the python libraries, specifically, the implementations for specific check routines. They also worked on addressing parsing issues and general code style.
pythonfontvariable-fontspython-3opentype
google/fonts
Mar 2017 - Nov 2022
Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 40 commits, 49 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Felipe contributed to the Google Fonts repository by adding new font families and correcting descriptions. They fixed build issues and addressed linter warnings within the project, indicating involvement in maintaining the codebase. The user also made changes to the `DESCRIPTION.en_us.html` files and the testing files, suggesting work in multiple areas of the project.
google-fontstrackerfontfontswoff
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