Felipe Hertzer is a Lead Full-stack Developer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building web applications and DevOps pipelines using JavaScript (React, Vue, Node) and PHP (Laravel, Symfony). He leads development and AWS integration at Public Address, shipping a PR-focused app while also owning infrastructure and CI/CD responsibilities. Felipe has hands-on experience with serverless architectures, payment gateway integrations, and managing both Linux and Windows servers across telecom and startup environments. An active open-source contributor, he has improved metadata extraction in the trafilatura project and enhanced form and URL utilities in the Nova framework, demonstrating attention to edge cases like Unicode and URL sanitization. Comfortable bridging front-end UX improvements with back-end robustness, he combines product-minded engineering with practical DevOps skills to keep systems reliable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Website Development, Diploma of Website Development at Wells International College
Bachelor in Computer Science, Network and Systems Administration, 10, Bachelor in Computer Science, Network and Systems Administration, 10 at Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul
Cambridge FCE & IELTS, English, Cambridge FCE & IELTS, English at MIT Institute
Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 reviews, 77 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily contributed to the improvement of the metadata extraction capabilities within the `trafilatura` project. Their work focused on enhancing the extraction of author names from various sources like meta tags, JSON-LD, and HTML content, including handling multiple authors and addressing edge cases like unicode characters. They also refined the title extraction process and made adjustments to the codebase to correctly process HTML elements. These changes suggest an effort to improve the accuracy and robustness of the data extraction pipeline, a core feature of the project.
Demo application using Nova - this is an extensive playground, use "app" repository for real applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily focused on enhancing the framework's form helper and URL utility functions. Their contributions included adding new form input types and attributes for improved functionality and user experience. Furthermore, the user addressed URL handling by implementing a function to remove accents from URLs and updating related logic. They also modified the paginator component and corrected a variable configuration.
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