Filipe Guerra
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFilipe Guerra is a Staff Software Engineer in Austin with 14 years designing and delivering web applications across startups and large enterprises, currently shaping platform work at LinkedIn. He brings deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, HTML and CSS, and a track record of progressing from developer to engineering manager and back to senior technical leadership. Filipe contributes to high-profile open-source ecosystems like DefinitelyTyped, improving TypeScript type definitions to make libraries safer and more developer-friendly. His background combines rigorous academic training in computer engineering and applied mathematics from Instituto Superior Técnico with real-world experience in product- and team-level leadership. Notably, he has experience in both technical instruction and atypical domains such as air-traffic-control training, reflecting a curious, systems-oriented mindset.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Master Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
typescript10
dts10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
mongodb10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
mongodb-database10
typesc9
type-system9
prettify8
pretier8
react8
php6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily contributed to improving and maintaining TypeScript type definitions for various packages within the `definitelytyped` repository. The commits involve fixing type definitions for ReactTestInstance, mailgun-js, and mongodb. The user also applied prettier formatting to multiple files to ensure code consistency and improved type definitions for numeric types. Their contributions directly enhanced the quality and accuracy of TypeScript type definitions for developers using these libraries.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
openwar/mongodb-queue
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Use your existing MongoDB as a local queue
Contributions:6 reviews, 127 commits, 65 PRs in 2 years 5 months
mongoqueuesnodejsmongoosemongodb
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