Ícaro Sant'ana
CTO & Co-Founder Software Engineer at Fast Solutions
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolÍcaro Sant'ana is a 22-year-old CTO and co-founder with eight years of hands-on software engineering experience, building high-performance web platforms, payment gateways, and multi-tenant systems that process millions of transactions. Based in Brasília, he blends a strong cybersecurity focus with practical DevOps and architecture leadership, having instituted agile practices, code review culture, and PCI DSS-aligned security at scale. As a front-end contributor to notable open-source projects, he has optimized user experience by fixing complex editor UI issues and refactoring components to solve subtle focus and form bugs. His freelance work spans IoT, desktop apps, game servers and end-to-end project delivery, reflecting a rare full-stack versatility for his age. Driven by a mission to turn technical depth into strategic business value, he pairs entrepreneurial instinct with a decade-long curiosity that began when he started coding at nine.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas, Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas at Universidade Católica de Brasília
Github Skills (12)
prosemirror10
typescript10
javascript10
nextjs10
tiptap10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
notion4
chatgpt4
vercel4
openai4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
steven-tey/novel
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
Notion-style WYSIWYG editor with AI-powered autocompletion.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ícaro primarily contributed to the user interface components of the `novel` project, focusing on the editor's functionality. They addressed several bugs, specifically fixing issues with buttons and form submissions within the editor's components such as bubble-menu, node-selector, color-selector, and link-selector. They also refactored the link selector component and moved the EditorBubbleMenu to avoid focus issues, which indicates a focus on optimizing the user experience.
ai-sdkchatgptnextjsnotionopenai
SmookeyDev/ExercisesManager
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 review, 23 commits, 22 PRs in 1 month
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