Filipe Chagas
Lead Software Engineer at LawnStarter
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolFilipe Chagas is a pragmatic Lead Software Engineer based in São Paulo with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a 20-year industry perspective, specializing in Ruby/Rails and modern JavaScript stacks like TypeScript, Next.js and React. He excels in distributed, remote teams and has driven full lifecycle initiatives from re-platforming high-traffic public tools (including contributions to the well-known gitignore.io) to migrating infrastructure from VPS to Kubernetes. Comfortable across databases and search technologies—Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, ElasticSearch and BigQuery—he pairs backend strength with frontend performance optimizations that tangibly improve web vitals. Proven in leadership roles, he introduced CI-driven deployments, testing-first culture, and Agile practices while still contributing code, reviews and pair programming. Notably, he has engineered integrations that combine Google Ads and LLMs for automation, showing a knack for blending product needs with pragmatic technical solutions.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems at Faculdade Gennari e PeartreeInformation Technology, Information Technology at ETEC Centro Paula Souza
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (12)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
performance-optimization10
webpacker9
webpack9
gitignore9
html9
minify-css8
minification8
minify8
jquery8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
toptal/gitignore.io
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Create useful .gitignore files for your project
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 27 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily focused on improving the performance and user experience of the `gitignore.io` website. They optimized the front-end code by preloading fonts and images, upgrading jQuery, and adding image sizes to prevent layout shifts and improve web vitals. They also worked on enhancing the internal linking feature and refactored the project by moving assets to be managed by webpack. The user also fixed various issues related to styling and font declarations.
gitignoregitignore-fileslinuxswiftserver-side-swift
filipechagas/vimfiles
Aug 2014 - Sep 2022
Contributions:80 commits, 43 pushes in 8 years 3 months
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