Gonçalo Morais is a Senior UX Engineer with 14 years of professional experience and nearly a decade focused on web and front-end development, currently shaping UX at CrowdStrike from Nantes. He brings deep JavaScript expertise across Ember, Vue, and React, paired with full-stack Ruby on Rails experience and a history of working with Python, Haskell and Node.js. Known for practical refactors and maintainability work—such as modernizing Markdown rendering and mailer flows on the popular codebar planner site—he blends product-focused engineering with attention to developer experience. He’s contributed to internationalization efforts like Portuguese translations for widely used Sass guidelines, and is actively learning Elm and Elixir to broaden his functional and concurrent programming skills.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MsC Computer and Telematics Engineering, MsC Computer and Telematics Engineering at Universidade de Aveiro
Contributions:67 reviews, 38 commits, 72 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Gonçalo primarily focused on refactoring the codebase related to Markdown rendering, migrating from deprecated gems (github-markdown, redcarpet) to commonmarker. They modified application helpers, initializers, and controllers to accommodate the change. The user also worked on features related to meeting invitations, including improvements to the mailer and ensuring correct user context and updating the admin interface.
Guidelines for writing sane, maintainable and scalable Sass.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Contributions:30 commits, 5 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Gonçalo's contributions focused on translating the documentation for the `sass-guidelines` repository into Portuguese. They added multiple Portuguese language snippets that matched their English counterparts. These changes appear to be primarily focused on providing localized content, with a few tweaks and additions to existing documentation.
scalablesasscssstyleguideguidelines
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