Filipe Santiago
Senior Software Engineer at Aston Martin F1 Team
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFilipe Santiago is a Senior Software Engineer with 3 years of professional experience building high-performance solutions, currently delivering trackside data tools for the Aston Martin F1 Team’s Performance Engineering group. He blends front-end craftsmanship with practical performance focus—contributing to popular open-source projects like Plotly.js by improving synchronized axes, hover behavior, and multicategory chart handling. Prior roles at DevScope and a Computer Science degree from Universidade do Porto underpin his solid engineering foundation and attention to reliability under real-time constraints. Passionate about motorsport and precision engineering, he brings a racer’s mindset to software: rapid iteration, measurable gains, and relentless refinement of existing systems.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Colégio Internato dos CarvalhosBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (9)
charts10
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
data-visualization10
chartjs10
charting10
testing10
d3js9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
plotly/plotly.js
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 71 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Filipe's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the charting library's user interface and functionality. They implemented the initial version of synchronized axes, fixed hover behaviors for multicategory plots, and added tests to ensure the correct functioning of new features. Furthermore, the user refactored code to improve hover label display for multicategory charts. The user demonstrated expertise in refining existing components and introducing new features within the Plotly.js library.
chartsdashcharting-librarychartwebgl
VictorBezak/plotly.js
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash
Contributions:58 pushes in 1 month
chartsdashchartcharting-librarycharting
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