Gabriel Loiácono is a Senior Software Engineer and front-end leader based in São Paulo with 8 years of experience crafting user-centered products and developer-friendly architectures. Trained as a designer, he blends UX practice with hands-on engineering—leading front-end teams at Trade-up Group and shipping complex interfaces at Mercado Livre and PicPay. He specializes in TypeScript, React and Vue ecosystems, and has contributed performance and robustness fixes to the core Vue.js compiler. Comfortable migrating legacy systems and improving developer experience, Gabriel focuses on measurable usability outcomes while maintaining clean, reusable code. Colleagues know him for turning design research into production-ready tools that scale across teams.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Design, Graphic Design, Design, Graphic Design at Universidade Católica Dom Bosco
UX na Prática, UX Design, 10, UX na Prática, UX Design, 10 at Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo
🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 13 PRs, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily focused on optimizing the Vue.js core library's compiler-dom and compiler-core packages. Their work included performance improvements, such as generating modifiers in a function and setting simple expressions outside a map. Additionally, they refactored code to avoid repetition, changed function to arrow functions for consistency, and addressed a bug related to renderList when the source was undefined. Furthermore, they implemented improvements in error handling, preventing errors when plugins passed in were undefined.
Lightweight solution to build and control query-strings with confidence
Contributions:12 releases, 149 commits, 1 PR in 3 years
queryconfidencenodejsstrings
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Gabriel Loiácono - Senior Software Engineer at Mercado Livre