Joas Souza is an engineering manager based in Rotterdam with 11 years of full‑stack experience, guiding teams to deliver pragmatic web applications using React, Vanilla JS, Node and Ruby on Rails. He combines hands‑on coding history—contributing front‑end fixes and UX improvements to the well‑known Etherpad real‑time editor—with strategic leadership responsibilities like defining engineering strategy, cross‑functional alignment and talent development. At Shypple he moved from team lead to managing the development organization alongside the CPO, focusing on quality, risk management and process improvements. His background spans productized web migrations, DevOps automation with AWS/ECS/Terraform and shipping both backend and frontend features in high‑pace teams. Known as an eager learner and coach, he actively mentors engineers and runs technical interviews to raise team capability. He brings a practical balance of feature delivery, operational rigor and open‑source curiosity that keeps both product and engineering healthy.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
worldwide school of English
computer science, Computer Science, computer science, Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 47 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Joas contributed to front-end development tasks within the Etherpad-lite project. This included fixing key event handling in the ace2_inner.js file, updating the browser.js library to detect the operating system and support newer browsers, and refactoring code and adding a new feature to scroll on edition out of the viewport. The user also worked on selecting formatting buttons when selection is on formatted text.
Contributions:21 PRs, 52 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 10 months
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