Filipe Dobreira
Co-Founder at NOAN
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolFilipe Dobreira is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 15 years of experience building full-stack products, developer tools, and secure infrastructure from the ground up. He has held principal engineering and infrastructure/security leadership roles at startups and scaleups including Impraise, Aula, Plot, and Ashby, and now co-leads NOAN from Lisbon. Hands-on across backend and frontend, he contributes to well-known open-source PHP projects such as whoops and boris and has improved developer UX in projects like Lightdash and a lightweight PHP wiki. Known for blending product-minded engineering with security and infrastructure stewardship, he’s comfortable moving between low-level exception handling and polishing responsive UIs. Colleagues rely on him to turn fuzzy product goals into pragmatic, testable systems that scale.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
281reputation
84kreached
10answers
5questions
Github Skills (36)
rep10
javascript10
testing10
css10
configuration-management10
typescript10
user-interface10
mantine10
php10
exception-handling10
front-end-development10
repr10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
filp/whoops
Mar 2013 - Sep 2017
PHP errors for cool kids
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:335 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily contributed to the `whoops` project by implementing and refactoring core exception handling features. They added tests for unregistering and handling exceptions, added priority constants for handlers, and simplified the handler stack. Furthermore, the user introduced initial handler walking functionality, built a basic handler class, and integrated a "PrettyPage" handler for improved error presentation.
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devaneando/Wikitten
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Wikitten is a small, fast, PHP wiki, and the perfect place to store your notes, code snippets, ideas, and so on.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily focused on improving the user interface and enhancing the functionality of the PHP wiki. They addressed various aspects of the front-end by modifying CSS and JavaScript files for better responsiveness and user experience. Furthermore, they integrated new features like JSON front matter support for page metadata and implemented an editing interface to facilitate content management.
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