Filipe Fortes
Software Engineer at Figma
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFilipe Fortes is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 16 years of experience shaping product, architecture, and engineering culture across startups and large companies. As a founding engineer at Coda, he architected and built much of the consumer UI and mentored teams in modern front-end practices for over a decade, leading to Coda’s acquisition by Grammarly and a brief senior staff role there before joining Figma. His background spans front-end and back-end work—from creating the Treesaver JavaScript layout framework and contributing UI and image/lightbox features to open-source projects, to backend music-library integrations in beets—demonstrating full-stack versatility. He has scaled publishing platforms at Flipboard, led cross-functional engineering teams, and repeatedly turned product vision into production-quality interfaces. Based in Miami with an MS in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon, he pairs deep UX-first thinking with pragmatic engineering trade-offs. An aspirational “neckbeard” in open source, he quietly improves developer tooling and layout systems that users don’t always notice until they’re indispensable.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Human-Computer Interaction, MS Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
musicbrainz10
javascript10
python10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
music9
html9
cli8
api8
apim8
testing7
compression6
wpf6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Treesaver/treesaver
Sep 2010 - Oct 2011
JavaScript library for creating column and page-based layouts
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:409 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily worked on the front-end aspects of the `treesaver/treesaver` project, focusing on the layout and user interface components. They were responsible for the implementation of features for various elements like articles and also introduced changes to the structure of the front-end components and the CSS styling. They also worked on integrating image and lightbox functionalities, optimizing UI behavior.
javascriptjavascript-librarylayouts
beetbox/beets
Aug 2013 - May 2019
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily contributed to the `beets` music library manager by implementing and refining features related to album art fetching, lyrics retrieval, and MusicBrainz integration. They fixed bugs, such as an issue with parsing `None` values when fetching lyrics and another related to artist aliases. Their work also included refactoring existing code for simplification and adding configuration options, such as ignoring audio data tracks during import.
clipythonmusicbrainztaggermusic
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